Linux Desktop Recommendations

[mmarion at miguelito.org]

On 12 Jul, Scott McClelland wrote:

> StarOffice or AbiWord, or some MS Office replacement (be able to read Word
> Docs, Excel spreadsheets, and something to act like MS Outlook)

You're going to run into issues where the docs don't always (and IME almost
never) cleanly import.  

> Our CEO wants to try to run Linux for everything and not have to use Windows
> for at least a week (who knows, maybe he'll never go back :).  

If you're using vmware (or win4lin).. then you are using windows.  Wine is
getting pretty good.  I've been using it to run quicken while in linux on my
laptop for two months now, and it works great.

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