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[ILUG] Small office project

[ILUG] Small office project

Gavin McCullagh gavin at fiachra.ucd.ie
Thu Nov 22 10:59:54 GMT 2001


On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, silvan wrote:

> I think this is starting to get confusing now (for newbees).
> What about the other questions Steve asked? I would like some answers to
> them too.
> Though as far as the weaning is concerned, I think it's best to have no
> windoze at all, that way "you" just concern yourself with Linux and learn
> all that like you do with just windoze booted.

I think in fairness for people who have used windows for important work
previously, don't get rid of it straight away.  You may need to do
somethign ASAP and in that case it might take 5 minutes on windows but
hours on linux (because you've never doen it before).  Keep windows
dual-booting until you're very comfortable with linux.

For example, if you get sent an excel document, how will you open it?
Setting up Wine is not a trivial task by all accounts (I havn't done it
myself) and I know of no linux prog which will open *.xls.

Gavin






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