Hello Nick!

23 Mar 17 12:54, you wrote to Kevin Nunn:

 NA> Nice and pretty GUI but anything outside of basic functionality you
 NA> need to open a terminal.

  I switch back and forth.  The dos BBS is run on a windows XP vm and
has been for years.  THe current host OS is windows 10, but it needs a lot
of TLC and I just don't feel like doing it so it's just running until it
dies.  (The VM is backed up daily so the BBS would only be down as long
as it takes to install a new OS and virtualbox) 

 NA> And yes I agree totally, Linux lacks decent software. It seems that it
 NA> suffers tremendously from freebie products that are half-assed and/or
 NA> abandonware.

  I do like Libreoffice more then Microsoft office, but I'm not a power user,
I use the spreadsheet (Calc) for all of my business work, but it's pretty
simple math for me.

 NA> Same thing with network printing, accessing Windows shares, RDP,

  Printing is easy, but I agree on the rest. 

 NA> When I see the legions of Linux fanboys on various forums trying to
 NA> convince long-time Windows users to switch over, its cringeworthy. If
 NA> someone really wants a decent "non-Windows" experience... buy a Mac.

  I'd never try to convince anyone to switch.  At the office I did replace
windows 7 with fedora for the distpachers but again they only use a web
browser (our dispatch software is web based) and libreoffice.  It saves me
HOURS of hassle.  Since I switched them to fedora (8 months ago) I haven't
had to do anything.  WHen they had a windows desktop they always had it
loaded with virus because they download every single slot machine and bingo
game they could find.

Shawn

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