Desktop Linux (fwd)

[Chris Brenton]

On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 14:17, Jeff Kinz wrote:
> 
> > And as I stated before, Quicken runs quite nicely on Linux if you use
> > CrossOver Office. Its only $40 and allows you to run a ton of MS apps (I
> > just loaded MS Visio this week and its running great).
>
> Also gotta work w/Intuits tax software....

And again, as I stated before, that works as well (at least last year's
edition ran fine for me).

> umm ...
> "Mom - if you want to use Quicken, you have to go to this other company
> and buy and install their product too, then Quicken will work."

Oh paleeeese, Windows users are already used to buying a product and not
having it work out of the box until they hunt down the company's support
site and install the latest drivers. If they can handle this, they can
handle a one time software install.

Besides, you can always pick up the desktop version of SuSE which has it
included. No additional software install required.

> Works for us geeks, but won't pass the "That's too strange test" for 
> real end users.

Huh? Installing software is too strange for end users????

Dude, sounds more like you've made up your mind that Linux on the
desktop sucks and nothing anyone is going to say is going to change
that. That's totally fine, but for many of us who have given it a chance
it works just fine.

C