Finally rid of Vista!

Originally Posted by timwilky

The problem I have with wine was an assumption that there would be other micro$oft apps there. My only need for it was because Lotus did not provide a linux client so I had to run it through wine. Problem then I could not figure out how to then launch appropriate open office apps when it wanted to launch office apps etc.

Why were you trying to run OOffice apps under WinE? They run natively under Linux fine.

Congratulations! Welcome back to the world of technology that works

Matt

Downloaded n tried out PCLinuxOS at the weekend ... easiest/simplest Linux I have used to date mind you, not done much with it yet

Only been running the LiveCD version, so next step is HDD install

It took me less than an hour to download and burn the ISO image to CD.
Then it was just a case of dipping into the BIOS to change the boot seek order so that I could boot from CDROM, and away we go 5 minutes later, I'm checking my hotmail using Firefox over my wireless network.
In fact, it was sooooo easy to set up the wireless network, it is worth mentioning ...
Cancelled the setup of the wireless network connection during "install" because didn't have access to the windows installation on the same machine, then once Linux was ready to run, I simply went to config panel, installed the hardware by selecting the windows ndis wrapper driver (or something?!), and then browse to the driver for my Belkin wireless NIC, it auto-detected my wireless LAN, I entered the WPA-PSK key, and I was connected and checking my e-mail with Firefox! All this took LESS THAN 5 MINUTES! Now when has anyone EVER been able to do that with Windoze?? LMAO

Will be playing about with PCLinuxOS over the coming weeks

Cheers,
Pete