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[Jeff Robertson]

Hey, thanks for the input. The more I here about Ubuntu the more I like it.
I work with Office and Photoshop a lot and that was my main concern.  Again,
thanks for your help.

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Pastor JW <pastor_jw at the-inner-circle.org>
wrote:

> On Monday 28 April 2008, Jeff Robertson wrote:
> > I am considering buying a new Dell laptop in a couple months.  I am fed
> up
> > with Windows and especially the crap they call "Vista".  Dell now offers
> > new laptops with Ubuntu installed as the OS.  I would love to learn and
> use
> > Ubuntu but I am worried some of my software won't work.  I have MS
> Office,
> > Acrobat 7, PhotoshopCS IllustratotCS2 and Frontpage.
>
> Well Jeff, I just got one of the (n)ice Laptops and love it!  Actually the
> "n"
> on my machine meant it was preloaded Ubuntu 7.10 and it is my first
> experience with this great OS!  I didn't use 7.10 very long as I got my
> machine a week before 8.04 released so I updated BEFORE I had much of my
> own
> data on the machine.  As for "Vista", it is amazing but the ONLY people I
> have found who like that system are the people attempting to sell it!  I
> have
> not found one person in our city who owns it, who does not have nasty
> things
> to say about it.  Even our city's WiFi coffee shops language is now X
> rated
> at best!  Your software won't work of course, unless you run it under wine
> (a
> windoze emulator which says the letters stand for "Wine Is Not an
> Emulator")or simular but then you bring back your windoze problems.  Each
> of
> the programs you have listed have their linux counterparts which work as
> well
> as or better than what they replace!  Even Windoze people will dump MS
> Office
> for Open Office on that platform once they try it out, especially places
> like
> my church, as we actually need software that works every week!
>
>
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Jeff
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