Linked by Chris Nabinger on Wed 14th Jan 2004 20:23 UTC
I'm a windows user by nature, I've been playing around with Linux for a little while, I'm no Expert in any way but I've used quite a few distro's. The first distro I ever stuck with for any amount of time Was Xandros 1.0, which a friend provided for me. Except for the fact that it ran an old version of KDE it was perfect for me, but the old KDE crippled my work. Enter Xandros 2.0.
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> Since I wrapped this up, I've installed mIRC in Wine, and
> continued to work in Xandros, every day, 8 hours a day at
> work,
I'm not being critical, but I notice that you're running an awful lot of Windows software over Wine for which there are very good Linux equivalents. Have you tried OpenOffice.org instead of MS Office, or XChat instead of mIRC? I've used both of the programs mentioned here in both cases, and I find the Linux equivalents to be preferable in both cases.
I don't know Xandros (I use mostly Fedora and Mandrake, myself), but instead of Mozilla-Mail you ought to take a look at Evolution. It's a GNOME app, which might be something you'd rather not have if you're running KDE, but you'll find it looks very much like MS Outlook. And you can get Ximian Connector (from Ximian, of course) which will make Evolution a complete Exchange client. If you want a native KDE email app, KMail is probably the one to look at. Oh, I should mention KOffice too. I like OpenOffice.org better, but KOffice is certainly something to look into.