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Making the switch-01: My journey from Windows to Linux

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zridling:
Darwin, I'll talk about this in a later post, but there are some "Windows equivalent" software sites like these two around:

http://www.linuxalt.com/
http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html

They will be a big help when I get to that point. I'll post 'Part 2' later tonight or by Friday morning and link to it in the top post here.

Darwin:
Thanks Zaine. I've shied away from trying out DOpus under Wine because I want to make sure that their licensing policy will allow me to do it first and because I haven't read anything anywhere that indicates that it works! So far I've only loaded up EditPad Pro in Wine and it works, so far. The cursor has a stamp sized patch of black surrounding it until you change the colour scheme to white text on a black background. I'm tempted to try uedit as well, but none of these are priorities. As I noted in an earlier post, above, what seriously impresses me about Linux circa 2007 is that it's really pretty much load it and forget it. It's all there out of the box - e-mail, internet browser, office suite, CD/DVD authoring tools, musc and other media players and editors, graphics packages... the list goes on. DOpus or XYPlorer on Linux would be nice, but it's not a deal breaker for me. I'm sort of excited about finding Linux apps (I'm probably just feeding my software addiction!).

Anyway, I'll check out those links and will report back if and when I take a run at loading anything major under Wine. Thanks for starting the thread, Zaine - this is going to be interesting!

edbro:
edbro, I don't think Quicken will ever do that, or need to, unless some market research shows there's money to be made, much like Adobe won't write (or port) a version of Photoshop. Just not enough users to justify the ROI.-zridling (June 07, 2007, 10:18 AM)
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Never say never. They have already taken the first step:
Intuit takes QuickBooks Enterprise to Linux
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5374

PhilB66:
apc recently published a superguide (22-10-2007): The Open Source Challenge. How to replace Windows completely with Ubuntu.

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