Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

On Sunday 11 February 2007 11:41, Micha Feigin wrote:
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 11:06:15 -0500

Hal Vaughan <hal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sunday 11 February 2007 04:43, Joe Hart wrote:
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 07:03:18 +0100

Joe Hart <j.hart@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Damn, did it again. I am so used to hitting reply. I have to
remember Reply to ALL...

'Reply to list' would be better. There was just recently a
thread about Icedove/Thundebird extensions to achieve that.

Regards,
Andrei

Thanks, I'll check the archives because I searched for it on
mozilla and couldn't find it.

To be honest I would prefer switching to Kmail because it
integrates much better to KDE, and it is a good client, but I
can't do that because my mail has to be accessible from Windows,
that my wife insists that I keep on this PC.

She gets mail too, and says that she has to have windows for her
school. I told her about Crossover Office, but she says "Why
should we buy something so I we can run MS Office on Linux when
it runs fine under Windows". Maybe I'll play with wine and get
her apps working. I have yet to spend the time. She says
OpenOffice isn't good enough, because it can't read the .doc
files reliably (thanks to the proprietary nature of the .doc
files).

Where/how is the mail stored? maybe kmail can be configured to work
with whatever option you want ...

If Office is the issue, and not Windows overall, then why should
she buy office when she can use OpenOffice for free and it will
read and write all MS Office files?

You did read the line above that she says that openoffice isn't good
enough for here?

I thought I had read it clearly, but I must have missed that part. I
don't know how. Maybe I tune it out because I've dealt with too many
people that look at OOo, try it for 2 minutes, say, "It won't work,"
and then I ask them to show me how to do a few things in Office and
realize they really don't even have much of a clue with Office. With
OOo 2.x, there's really no reason to stick with Office any longer
unless the PHB orders it.

Personally I am a bigger fan of openoffice but it does have problems
with properly formatting word documents.

I've never really had a problem with that. Are you dealing with
specific or unusual formatting?

Hal


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