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Mon, 10 Jan 2000
I am glad to see you take the first step in promoting a Linux software. This may be the start of a new era in computing for the general public. The "Blue Screens" and software incompatibilities that haunt Windows users has to stop somewhere. Microsoft continues to sell (over priced) unstable software that we are forced to use until someone can create an operating system that does what it is suppose to do.
I also applaud your choice of wordprocessors. WordPerfect is a very good product at an affordable price. There is more to the world than Microsoft and the more folks like you that are willing to investigate alternatives and report to users the better the computing experience will be.
- Harry
The editor replies:
Installing Linux is certainly an experiment at this point, but then Windows was also an experiment at one time <g>. Hopefully my ongoing series will spark some interest among CAD vendors.
I get frustrated with having to reboot Windows 98 as often as several times a day.
I originally used WordPerfect 4 and 5 for DOS, I still recall taking nearly a half-year before I was comfortable using a mouse with WP 5's new menus. I even typeset my first couple of books using WP 5 for DOS -- constantly switching to and from the graphical print preview mode to see how the text was lining up!
But then I suffered through WP for Windows v5.1, v6 and WP for DOS v6. Even WP v5 Plus (I think it was called), didn't do it for me, and I reluctantly switched to Word.