Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on November 18, 2002 11:54 PM
I'm using Mandrake 9 right now. I don't have any of the problems you mentioned. So you have to download flash! You have to do that in Netscape on windows too! I spent $79 for codeweavers and $15 for Winex. I now run MS Office, Quicken,Visio and have all the plugins not available for linux (Shockwave,Windows Media Player, Quicken, Flash 8). Plus I play Grand Theft AutoIII & Max Payne right beside all the native titles, I have all of loki's titles, UT2003, Quake3 & Castle Wolfenstien. For my College classes, I can take formulas and Calculations done in Mathematica for linux and export them to Word, plug in an Excell spreadsheet and email it to my professor with %100 certainty he will be able to read it properly formatted and send it back with corrections to me. If that's not a desktop, what is? I no longer have to dual boot. I can do the exact same things I did in windows, and I didn't have to do anything too difficult to accomplish this. All this was made exceptionally easy, I downloaded the iso's, burned the CD and the install was easy. The only thing I might have done differently is join Mandrake Club and buy Codeweavers products and Transgamming Winex through their online deals. About once a year previously I would buy the prepackaged Mandrake releases, I did this to support them, I don't buy every release as often as linux distributions ship, I would be spending less for windows. I hadn't bought any software for it except the occasional games since 1999 when I purchased the computer!
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Re:This is the bugiest release ever!!!
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on November 18, 2002 11:54 PMIf that's not a desktop, what is? I no longer have to dual boot. I can do the exact same things I did in windows, and I didn't have to do anything too difficult to accomplish this. All this was made exceptionally easy, I downloaded the iso's, burned the CD and the install was easy. The only thing I might have done differently is join Mandrake Club and buy Codeweavers products and Transgamming Winex through their online deals. About once a year previously I would buy the prepackaged Mandrake releases, I did this to support them, I don't buy every release as often as linux distributions ship, I would be spending less for windows. I hadn't bought any software for it except the occasional games since 1999 when I purchased the computer!
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