trubleshooting a laptop

[Douglas Pollard]

On 03/27/2013 04:27 PM, Ric Moore wrote:
> On 03/27/2013 04:06 PM, Paul Smith wrote:
>> On Wed, 2013-03-27 at 14:52 -0400, Sarunas Burdulis wrote:
>>> MS Office probably won't be very stable in Wine emulator. CrossOver
>>> (commercial) might be another option, but I haven't tried.
>>
>> I'd actually be surprised if she had much trouble running standard
>> Office applications under Wine, especially if she's not using the
>> latest/greatest Office... and if she was using Windows XP that seems a
>> good bet.
>>
>> I've used Crossover and it's very good:
>>     http://www.codeweavers.com/products/
>>
>> It's a productized and supported version of Wine and all their code
>> fixes make it back into Wine... so they're great to give money to if you
>> need Wine.
>>
>> If you want to go this way, make sure she brings her Office installation
>> CD or DVD with her as you'll need it to reinstall.  She won't be able to
>> transfer her Windows installation into Ubuntu (you can keep her Windows
>> disk partition, if you are careful and there's enough empty space that
>> Ubuntu can fit, so she doesn't have to back up and restore her files...
>> although backups are always a good idea anyway).
>>
>> I sincerely doubt you'll be able to test all this stuff in a Live DVD
>> session, by the way...
>
> He made the point that the laptop was 5 years old and was suffering
> running Windows natively. Running MS Office under emulation using Wine
> won't help that, I would think. Ric
>
>
>
Ric I guess I  am wondering if I install Ubuntu on a second partition
and it runs well can I assume the at maybe the memory and drive is ok
since it works ok with ubuntu. Doug

-- 
                 Doug Pollard, 
      Sailor, Machinst, writer,artist 
                Visit me at:
     
     http://sailboatsfairandfine.blogspot.com/
     http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=0sujnvIV4g4