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To: clee1
I would DL and burn several Live CD/DVDs to experiment with and see which one fits your needs.

As for Office, LibreOffice is quite good, and it comes in a Windows version, so you can try it out before you make the OS switch.

There are quite a few games available on Linux--including Steam. I use Wine to run the one or two Windows games I like (Civilization, mainly), and Wine usually comes with the distro's repository, so you can install it with a single command.

22 posted on 02/11/2014 6:31:27 AM PST by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: ShadowAce

I appreciate the info. I used an early iteration of Wine years ago and it sucked pretty bad; is the newer flavor ok? I have a love-hate relationship with winblows... love the applications, hate the OS.


23 posted on 02/11/2014 6:49:46 AM PST by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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To: ShadowAce

Any idea what’s up with CentOS?

Wanted to test it out, but it seems to be gone now :/


40 posted on 02/11/2014 8:19:09 AM PST by Bikkuri ( those would have been affected.)
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