Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 14, 2003 07:11 PM
As I am the original poster you are referring to I will cover your points. First off, I have never been a Windows user so there is nothing to stick to. I went from old 8 bit machines to UNIX back in 1990, got into SunOS until Solaris came along and then switched to Linux gradually from 1994. Never had to use Windows in anger, started a company and put Linux on all servers and desktops so don't give me the stick with Windows crap.
OK, Crossover is a life saver, while we use Mozilla and OpenOffice for the majority of our work there are times in business when you have to use Windows tools. Previously I would boot into Windows, use VMWare, or Win4Lin depending on when this was. Now with Crossover I can use Office2K and IE 6.0 directly within Linux when I absolutely have to and I don't have to run Windows at all now. That is great news. Yes, I have paid MS money for a copy of Office but I prefer OpenOffice and everyone in the company uses that. Where I can I get those people we collaborate with to use OpenOffice so we can share docs back and forth.
As for IE, frankly there are so few sites that Mozilla fails with that I simply don't care about IE but some may have need of it and the fact that it works is also great.
I have real work to do, my company uses the tools it needs to do its job and for 99% of the time that is Linux, bit without Crossover that 1% would give us some real issues and might make it necessary to actually have a few Windows desktops which we don't.
The main use of Office2K is to open Office docs that OO can't get at reliably, or to check that docs that people want in Word format have been correctly exported from OO and can be fixed if needed. It is awful that we have to use it but it does mean that we can get the job done and at the end of the day Linux is the more flexible solution and I make sure all my business contacts know that.
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Re:Don't use Crossover
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 14, 2003 07:11 PMOK, Crossover is a life saver, while we use Mozilla and OpenOffice for the majority of our work there are times in business when you have to use Windows tools. Previously I would boot into Windows, use VMWare, or Win4Lin depending on when this was. Now with Crossover I can use Office2K and IE 6.0 directly within Linux when I absolutely have to and I don't have to run Windows at all now. That is great news. Yes, I have paid MS money for a copy of Office but I prefer OpenOffice and everyone in the company uses that. Where I can I get those people we collaborate with to use OpenOffice so we can share docs back and forth.
As for IE, frankly there are so few sites that Mozilla fails with that I simply don't care about IE but some may have need of it and the fact that it works is also great.
I have real work to do, my company uses the tools it needs to do its job and for 99% of the time that is Linux, bit without Crossover that 1% would give us some real issues and might make it necessary to actually have a few Windows desktops which we don't.
The main use of Office2K is to open Office docs that OO can't get at reliably, or to check that docs that people want in Word format have been correctly exported from OO and can be fixed if needed. It is awful that we have to use it but it does mean that we can get the job done and at the end of the day Linux is the more flexible solution and I make sure all my business contacts know that.
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