[arachne] Re: arachne Digest V9 #31
- From: "Sam Ewalt" <ewalt@xxxxxxxx>
- To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 15:26:34 -0500 (EST)
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I'd be willing to concede that it *might* work if you fiddled with it
enough but since the people I'm working with have everything I need
to do already worked out to perfection in Windows I didn't see the need to
reinvent the wheel. Much easier not to.
Then there is the online "webinar" situation that cannot work in
Linux because I have to use proprietary software.
Sam Ewalt
Frustrating.
On Fri, December 9, 2011 2:26 pm, Jason Dodd wrote:
> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
>
> I agree completely. I'm insurance interacting with , too. Just too
> many excel spreadsheets with just enough incompatiblities with
> libreoffice that it just doesn't work.
>
> On 12/09/2011 11:39 AM, Sam Ewalt wrote:
>> I have a business relationship with someone who I need to exchange info
>> with such as marketing lists and so forth. He doesn't provide my
>> computer
>> equipment, I do that for myself.
>>
>> The insurance world pretty much lives in Windows and the info I need to
>> use
>> is mostly in Excel. We tried our best to do what we had to do using my
>> Linux setup with Libre with various frustrations and problems that no
>> doubt the "power users" of this list would not experience. But, us
>> "ordinary
>> users" soon got tired of hacking around the various installations and
>> translations that were required and I decided that since I could buy a
>> perfectly adequate used computer with XP and Office 2007 for dirt cheap
>> I would just do that. Things got a lot easier when I did.
>>
>> Neither myself or my business partner were entirely happy with not
>> being able to easily integrate Linux and Windows at the "ordinary
>> user" level but that was that.
>>
>> I've hated Windows for years--but I had to "pull up my socks" and just
>> get on with it.
>>
>> Sam Ewalt
>>
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