trubleshooting a laptop

[Ric Moore]

On 03/27/2013 04:06 PM, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-03-27 at 14:52 -0400, Sarunas Burdulis wrote:
>> MS Office probably won't be very stable in Wine emulator. CrossOver
>> (commercial) might be another option, but I haven't tried.
>
> I'd actually be surprised if she had much trouble running standard
> Office applications under Wine, especially if she's not using the
> latest/greatest Office... and if she was using Windows XP that seems a
> good bet.
>
> I've used Crossover and it's very good:
>     http://www.codeweavers.com/products/
>
> It's a productized and supported version of Wine and all their code
> fixes make it back into Wine... so they're great to give money to if you
> need Wine.
>
> If you want to go this way, make sure she brings her Office installation
> CD or DVD with her as you'll need it to reinstall.  She won't be able to
> transfer her Windows installation into Ubuntu (you can keep her Windows
> disk partition, if you are careful and there's enough empty space that
> Ubuntu can fit, so she doesn't have to back up and restore her files...
> although backups are always a good idea anyway).
>
> I sincerely doubt you'll be able to test all this stuff in a Live DVD
> session, by the way...

He made the point that the laptop was 5 years old and was suffering 
running Windows natively. Running MS Office under emulation using Wine 
won't help that, I would think. Ric



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