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[Jacob Maynard]

I'm thinking that we need a page devoted to Windows programs and their
free equivalents. That's going to be a lot of work, but I think it's
something that needs to be there. Or just link to a pre-existing one such
as 
http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Linux_software_equivalent_to_Windows_software

That's my opinion.

Jacob

> On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 02:17:53PM +1000, Sunnz wrote:
>
>> And I think people do know Linux is superior in a lot of aspect... but
>> Linux just seem to be "for advanced users" and average joes out there
>> proactively claims that they don't need 'advanced features'.
>
> One problem here is that a lot of people know their certain software
> packages
> and want to stick to them. There are alternatives, but people don't want
> to
> learn how to use a different program to do the same thing - even if there
> isn't really any learning involved, the thought that there might be still
> puts
> them off. This is even worse with the software where there aren't
> alternatives
> - one that springs to mind is AutoCAD (My SO is an architect - she uses
> that
>   all the time, and there isn't anything even close for the non-Windows
> world
>   that I know about)...
>
>> I think if we were to promote Linux to the everyday home user, it must
>> be simple and minimalist, easy to install... showing a video of
>> installing Feisty on a Windows machines without destroying Windows
>> would be useful.
>
> There is apparantly an unofficial version of Ubuntu that comes as a
> windows
> MSI file. You just download it and install it as if it's a normal windows
> program, and it installs Ubuntu somewhere (I've no idea where - the guy
> who
> told me about it claims that it didn't repartition his drive, but his
> windows
> drive was NTFS) and installs a bootloader for you to select Ubuntu or
> Windows
> at boot time.
>
> --
> Graham Cox
>
> [We] use bad software and bad machines for the wrong things.
> 		-- R.W. Hamming
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