| Kyros said: You always have a choice. You can choose not to use those programs or use equivelant programs that run on linux. What applications you were talking about? I might be able to help you with your problem. I could use OpenOffice and live with the conversion problems. I could live with the crappy Flash support in Linux when developing Flex. I could try using VNC instead of RemoteDesktop when working on other Windows PCs (which are used by everyone else in the world). Yeah I could also stop using computers and live under a bridge. That's not the point. For me living with the crappy monopolistic OS Microsoft provides is easier than the alternative. That doesn't make it better though. And for the guy who said I could buy components for a PC, try to do that with a Notebook, that will narrow down your choice pretty fast. |
I haven't experienced any problems with OO recently, not that I have need to convert files to MS office. But I think there is a program which converts ODF to ms office format. You can also save your documents directly to office 03 format.. of course there is always wine, it can run any version of ms office on linux!
Flex builder is cross-platform.. flash runs perfectly on my linux desktop. Linux does support RDP too, so why don't you use it instead of vnc?
So you are saying that linux/osx/bsd/whatever is better than windows but still you use windows? Wtf? Monopolistic? Hey, check out:
There are few FREE alternatives which you can use. You could also try OSX, some people consider that pretty good.
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Is that really 50% of the programs you use? Omg.
