Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 21st Aug 2006 19:02 UTC, submitted by Mark Daher
"You've built a linux desktop. You've mounted the learning curve to configure the hardware (or paid someone else to do so) and you are able to do your own work on the machine. You've discovered that if you can point and click you can run a modern linux OS on your desktop. But how is it you will ever relate to the rest of the world? What do you do with the MS attachments people send you? How do you enjoy the music distributed in formats for a Windows World?"
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2005-11-11
//I mean, come on, everyday you have to send e-mail to people to send in another format, and the say they only have this format. If I want to print a billboard, no partner will accept if it's not a Corel Draw file. Most proposal come as HTML e-mail with a company logo next to the sales rep signature, and with a .doc attachment. Your friends send you YouTube links to watch Flash videos, you have to reply and say "Please don't send me this kind of e-mail anymore, as I only have an old version of Flash, and my OS can't upgrade to Flash Player 9, others send you wmv videos, and you have to say "sorry, I didn't install the mplayer codecs, I won't be able to watch the video". And there's this customer who sends you his zipped .psd Photoshop file for you to get his logo. You name it...
With Linux you feel alone until you ditch it. And you feel stupid when you tell people you can't open a Photoshop file or when you say than your Word document is all messed up. People don't understand, they don't know about Linux. When I used to tell them that I used Linux, they all would say they didn't know what that was. Anyway, for these people that hear about Linux for the first time and find out nothing works on Linux, this is pretty good promotion: Don't use Linux if you still want your Office documents to look good.//
Sigh!
Use the "big daddy" version of this:
http://www.pclinuxos.com/page.php?7
It will install very easily (heck, you don't even have to install it, it will run right off the CD). You will have absolutely no trouble using it if you can also use Windows. You will have no trouble with formats either, except the venerable Corel draw format which surely no-one uses any more?
What is wrong with PDF anyway for printing - oh, I forgot, MS Office doesn't export to pDF does it?
Not to worry, I can use OpenOffice to export to PDF, and I can print to PDF via CUPS on Linux. Any decent print house will happily print my PDF for me.