[AT] Off-topic Operating Systems (was Re: Forum registration)

[Stephen Offiler]

Thanks for those recommendations, Len.  As it happens, I am a routine
LibreOffice user already, as well as a Google Drive user.  So your advice
sort of drops right into my "comfort zone".

SO


On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 7:38 PM, Len Rugen <rugenl at yahoo.com> wrote:

> If you want to get off of XP to a free Linux OS that isn't completely
> foreign, try http://zorin-os.com/
> Most of the time, a lite Linux will run faster than XP did on the same
> system.  There is a pretty complete office package from
> http://www.libreoffice.org/ that will work on Linux or Windows.  You can
> also use something like Google Drive to keep your documents in the cloud
> accessible from any web browser.
>    Len Rugen
>
> rugenl at yahoo.com
>
>
>
>
>      On Monday, March 9, 2015 5:06 PM, Indiana Robinson <
> robinson46176 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>  On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 5:00 PM, Stephen Offiler <soffiler at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I always had a picture of Mac's as machines for artists and writers and
> > graphic professionals and free-thinkers in general, while the dour
> business
> > applications ran under Windows.  I suppose there was a day when that was
> at
> > least sort-of true.  My engineer brain felt like it was "jumping ship"
> when
> > I recently chose to purchase a Mac for home use, like it was more of a
> toy
> > than a machine.  I was just completely surprised by how nice and capable
> it
> > is all the way around.  And I'm typing this note from a fancy Win 7
> > quad-core 64-bit 3 workstation optimized for 3-D CAD right now at work...
> > crossing my fingers the company doesn't move to Win 8...
> >
> > SO
> >
> >
> As I understand it about the only reason to move from Windows 7 to Windows
> 8 is for touch screen use?
>
> As someone well blessed with poverty one of the reasons I first started
> looking at Linux was because it was stable and free.
> :-)
> My original computer experience was in the mid 1960's and NOTHING like a
> PC. When I started on a regular PC (after my time with a Timex/Sinclair and
> then a Radio Shack Coco III it was all DOS. I did not know a single soul on
> the planet with a PC that I could learn from or ask questions. I about went
> mad. Talk about a learning curve... The 6 page manual explained how to use
> the switch to turn it on.
> :-)
> I later got a copy of DR-DOS (Digital Research) and it had a common sense
> manual. MS-DOS manual I believe was intentionally confusing.
>
>
> --
>
> Francis Robinson
> aka "farmer"
> Central Indiana USA
> robinson46176 at gmail.com
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