I hate windows but i keep on comming back

[hagen van rissenbeck]

Steve Torrefranca schrieb:
> it makes me wonder even the geekiest linux user in the office (who loves
> crackers BTW) is running a dual-boot system and tells me its not a good
> idea to get rid of windows.  By the looks of it M$ Wdows is essential
> and Linux an alternative? can most users kick out windows 100%?

Hi,

On my server or central pc, there is for more than a year no ms-system 
running anymore. ;-)

On my laptop, there is an xp home installed. I seldom use it, but it was 
installed and I payed for it. When I boot xp, the virus scanner always 
tells me, that virus signatures are older than 14 days. That should 
express how often xp is used by me.


Do I miss some apps in linux (point of view of and end user)?

FMPOW, there is one lack, which is rarely discussed: OCR.

The result (quality, format)  of the linux ocr-programs are not 
comparable with professional ocr-solutions for windows (omnipage or 
abbyy finereader). But for that reason I don't need to have a windows 
system installed. One discussed vmware, I prefer wine emulation 
configured with winetools: abbyy finereader (licenced ;-) ) is working 
fine, I only have to scan the documents with an external app, because 
abbyy wants to communicate to scanners via the twain.dll, and that's not 
working yet.

So, do I miss windows, would I "come back"?

No, that's sure... ;-)

Hagen