Re: MS Windows Linux Distribution?

Charlie Gibbs wrote:
In article <1156501394.21867.0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, a@xxx
(The Natural Philosopher) writes:

My friend who actually LIKES windows, liked SUSE because he said
it comes up looking like windows, most of the buttons and so on
do similar things, and it installed pretty much without a hitch.
HE uses it because it crashes less than XP..and runs faster..BUT
he has to dual boot because a lot of stuff he uses simply isn't
available for Linux.

Understood. Have you tried using Wine? It doesn't run all
Windows apps perfectly yet, but it might help.


He tried wine but couldn't get it to work easily.

Also Vmware..and that did run tow out the 4 apps.

I am probably going to solve the problem by retaining the win98 machine for those apps which it only can run - mainly 'hobby' stuff..heavy graphics and obscure programs.. and switch to X-windows for everything else.
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