Yea, Linux would be great for school work _but_ most of my teachers only accept Microsofts own filetypes. Something about "layout not working properly on other filetypes" or something. And ofc all files, notes, exercises, essay topic papers etc. are on .docx format.
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Originally Posted by Hopea
Yea, Linux would be great for school work _but_ most of my teachers only accept Microsofts own filetypes. Something about "layout not working properly on other filetypes" or something. And ofc all files, notes, exercises, essay topic papers etc. are on .docx format.
OpenOffice is compatible with Linux, and you can save as *.doc and *.docx
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Linux I say is the "best". As one of my friends used to say: why buy something when you can get the same thing, or better, for free?
Linux in general has more variety and most of the programs that you get for it are "free". Of course if you use it, it is polite to contribute, cash, code, or time, so that it stays around.
The drawback that most people have is familiarity, as I said earlier. Does so and so program run in linux? Yes, no, or maybe. Even if it doesn't there probably is a similar program, that does the same thing, for free.
Word processing - i.e. "Word" for most people, I would recommend either the word processor in Open Office or Abiword. Both can save in Microsoft format. And both can read Microsoft format.
Spread Sheet - i.e. "Excel" for most, I would recommend either the spread sheet in Open Office or Gnumeric. Again both can read and save Microsoft formats.
And all these programs also run in Microsoft Windows, and Mac. So you can use them, and try them out, without installing Linux. And they are free.
The biggest problem I do have is games. Not that there isn't games that run natively in linux, there are millions. It is that the production games that you purchase, are likely to run only on Microsoft. Not on Mac. Not on Linux.
There is an application layer you can install on both Mac and Linux, called Wine, that can run many Microsoft applications, including games, well. There is also some pay for variants with greater support or focus, like gaming. Cedega is one, and I can't remember the other right now.
And yes I said on Mac. Mac has a unix layer. You can run most things that run in Linux on a Mac, including Wine.
There is also a few application layer type programs for running Linux type stuff in Microsoft. Like Cygwin.
In general, I say Linux is a better OS. Mac is a better laptop. (Not an OS cause most of it is Mac OS and the Mac computer, though you can now run it other non Mac hardware). And Microsoft is just pure advertising, and habit.
The only thing that keeps people in Microsoft is money. Money thrown in advertising, money given to people to make the programs to run in Microsoft, and money paid to computer manufacturers to install Microsoft on all their computers.
In some ways it is a self fulfilling circle. You buy a computer, it has Microsoft. You goto buy a program, It only runs on Microsoft. You get an upgrade, because your new program only works on a new version of Microsoft. Rinse, Repeat.
Another thing that really annoys me in general, though I see mostly in Microsoft. Get a Windows 98 machine, with an Office version from the same time. Run them. See how fast they run. See what they do.
Now do the same with a "modern" system. Vista, XP, Windows 7 with Office for their specific versions. Time them, from start-up to shutdown. Make sure the hardware matches also.
Notice anything? They all run at almost the same times. If the Hardware, OS, and Software, all match the era, they run at comparable speeds. But wait ... aren't we running fater computers now? Isn't the newer versions better? Yes ... and no. If you take the Windows 98 versions and put them on a "modern" machine, assuming you could find drivers that work, it would be "blazingly" fast. And take up less space. And write the same documents. So where is the discrepency with the new versions?
Talk at you later =P
Linux I say is the "best". As one of my friends used to say: why buy something when you can get the same thing, or better, for free?
Linux in general has more variety and most of the programs that you get for it are "free". Of course if you use it, it is polite to contribute, cash, code, or time, so that it stays around.
The drawback that most people have is familiarity, as I said earlier. Does so and so program run in linux? Yes, no, or maybe. Even if it doesn't there probably is a similar program, that does the same thing, for free.
Word processing - i.e. "Word" for most people, I would recommend either the word processor in Open Office or Abiword. Both can save in Microsoft format. And both can read Microsoft format.
Spread Sheet - i.e. "Excel" for most, I would recommend either the spread sheet in Open Office or Gnumeric. Again both can read and save Microsoft formats.
And all these programs also run in Microsoft Windows, and Mac. So you can use them, and try them out, without installing Linux. And they are free.
The biggest problem I do have is games. Not that there isn't games that run natively in linux, there are millions. It is that the production games that you purchase, are likely to run only on Microsoft. Not on Mac. Not on Linux.
There is an application layer you can install on both Mac and Linux, called Wine, that can run many Microsoft applications, including games, well. There is also some pay for variants with greater support or focus, like gaming. Cedega is one, and I can't remember the other right now.
And yes I said on Mac. Mac has a unix layer. You can run most things that run in Linux on a Mac, including Wine.
There is also a few application layer type programs for running Linux type stuff in Microsoft. Like Cygwin.
In general, I say Linux is a better OS. Mac is a better laptop. (Not an OS cause most of it is Mac OS and the Mac computer, though you can now run it other non Mac hardware). And Microsoft is just pure advertising, and habit.
The only thing that keeps people in Microsoft is money. Money thrown in advertising, money given to people to make the programs to run in Microsoft, and money paid to computer manufacturers to install Microsoft on all their computers.
In some ways it is a self fulfilling circle. You buy a computer, it has Microsoft. You goto buy a program, It only runs on Microsoft. You get an upgrade, because your new program only works on a new version of Microsoft. Rinse, Repeat.
Another thing that really annoys me in general, though I see mostly in Microsoft. Get a Windows 98 machine, with an Office version from the same time. Run them. See how fast they run. See what they do.
Now do the same with a "modern" system. Vista, XP, Windows 7 with Office for their specific versions. Time them, from start-up to shutdown. Make sure the hardware matches also.
Notice anything? They all run at almost the same times. If the Hardware, OS, and Software, all match the era, they run at comparable speeds. But wait ... aren't we running fater computers now? Isn't the newer versions better? Yes ... and no. If you take the Windows 98 versions and put them on a "modern" machine, assuming you could find drivers that work, it would be "blazingly" fast. And take up less space. And write the same documents. So where is the discrepency with the new versions?
Talk at you later =P
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