Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on August 06, 2004 12:44 AM
I would like to do the same. I use Debian for everything - I used to use Windows for Quicken, but now it works fine under Wine since I added some horsepower to my main box (dual-boot Debian/Win98).
My wife uses Windows for everything, "everything" being Outlook Express and the basic card games bundled with Windows. I've tried to get her to use KMail but she won't switch unless I figure out how to get her address book and previous messages (approx 3000, *all* in the inbox in chronologic order, no other folders!) transferred over. I am certain that MS intentionally makes this difficult - it is like trying to get the roaches out of a roach motel.
My 6 year old daughter loves the "Penguin System" and would use it exclusively if I could get her educational games (Jump Start, Reader Rabbit, etc) to work with Wine, but I can't.
I recently put together a nifty small form-factor system for my daughter's room with both WinXP and Debian. This was my first real contact with XP - for a knowledgable user, it seems thoroughly dumbed-down to the point of being intentionally obfuscated.
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Re:Linux family here...
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on August 06, 2004 12:44 AMI use Debian for everything - I used to use Windows for Quicken, but now it works fine under Wine since I added some horsepower to my main box (dual-boot Debian/Win98).
My wife uses Windows for everything, "everything" being Outlook Express and the basic card games bundled with Windows. I've tried to get her to use KMail but she won't switch unless I figure out how to get her address book and previous messages (approx 3000, *all* in the inbox in chronologic order, no other folders!) transferred over. I am certain that MS intentionally makes this difficult - it is like trying to get the roaches out of a roach motel.
My 6 year old daughter loves the "Penguin System" and would use it exclusively if I could get her educational games (Jump Start, Reader Rabbit, etc) to work with Wine, but I can't.
I recently put together a nifty small form-factor system for my daughter's room with both WinXP and Debian. This was my first real contact with XP - for a knowledgable user, it seems thoroughly dumbed-down to the point of being intentionally obfuscated.
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