Re: [SLUG] Win4Lin and M$Office: followup rant

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Thu Jun 14 2001 - 19:35:14 EDT


On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 01:47:07AM -0400, Robert Haeckl wrote:

> I've never used VMWare so I can't compare. I'm also not a Windows power
> user. The few times that I have used it there has not been a crash. I
> will probably be attending the Dunedin meeting and I could bring in the
> box for her to try it out. She's welcome to install and uninstall
> whatever she needs to use.
>
> -Robert
>

_That_ might get her to come! ;-}

Paul

> Paul M Foster wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 03:26:09PM -0400, Robert Haeckl wrote:
> >
> > > Legacy M$ apps (meaning Office95/Office97) work well in Win4Lin.
> >
> > Question: supposedly under VMWare, Windows apps run more stably (fewer
> > crashes). Would you say the same is true for Windows apps running
> > Win4Lin? I'm thinking of replacing my wife's Windows with a SuSE system
> > running Win4Lin, and she's a power user. She _kills_ her system
> > routinely. It would help if I could say that her Windows apps wouldn't
> > crash as much (or Windows itself, for that matter).
> >
> > Paul



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