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RC (no-one-is-home@no.where) wrote:
: I have a 486 SX33Mhz with Win3.11, 4Mb RAM and 202Mb HDD. Happily using word 
: 2.0 (still...) Excel 5.0 etc.

: I was told Linux is a better OS, but harder to learn and prefer by techie.

Linux truly is a better operating system. It has stability, accessibility
standard-compliance and freeness that Windows hasn't and never will have.

It is also smaller and more efficient, and you don't _have_ to run in
GUI (X-windows) mode to do useful things. I'm sure there is more than
one project afoot to make Linux a fire-and-forget proposition too (and
some Linux people object to that idea).

: How much is Linux better compare to MS windows ??

How much better is an Oka than a Commodore? (-:

: What are the main reasons people migrating to Linux ??

Sick of paying Micro$loth's pound of flesh. Sick of things crashing. Want to
edit without having to fire up an entire GUI -- and multi-task meanwhile.
Want to be able to change a thing I don't like or add a feature to a program
I'm using. Many things.

: Linux does not have word or excel equivalents (most people buy a computer
: just for that), isnt it lower productivity ??

Yes it does, and for free. Some things it has many of (for example,
emulators for smaller machines, databases, scientific programs). They
don't ship with it, and you actually have to type things (shock, horror)
and know a little bit about what you're doing in order to install them.

: What does the Linux community most use a Linux machine for ?? (eg. for 
: network, but use other OS on top ??? so they can use word...etc.)

Whatever you would use a DOS machine for, only timesharing; a Windows
machine for, only reliably and for free; a SCO machine for only for
free; a Mac for only with more buttons on the mouse. As for other OSes
on top, you can run DOS programs within Linux. You can also run Sinclair,
Atari, Amstrad and other programs, if you feel masochistic (-:


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