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To: SeekAndFind

I installed my firs Linux distro ten years ago (Red Hat) and have had a computer or two running it since. It is pretty good now, but still not ready for prime time with the normal crowd that can’t copy a file. It is also not ready for business desktops because it doesn’t run the software they want (without creating a technical situation they can’t or won’t navigate). The apps that it must run are Excel, Access, Word, Outlook, and Exchange (latest edition). Let’s not forget Quickbooks either. It also has to work with all of their existing hardware. For home users it must run Word and PC Games.

As it stands right now, Mac has the graphics/video and hipster market and PC owns business, gaming and most of the home desktop market.

I have to have Linux so I can safely click on email that my uncle Bob sends me and I’m addicted to Gnome Mahjong.


19 posted on 10/27/2014 3:06:52 PM PDT by Poser (Cogito ergo Spam - I think, therefore I ham)
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To: Poser

I have to have Linux so I can safely click on email that my uncle Bob sends me and I’m addicted to Gnome Mahjong.

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LOL. The few years I ran Linux, I played a lot of Mahjong.


28 posted on 10/27/2014 11:05:51 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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