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No, I did not write that Ubuntu is the answer to everything, Bill. I said if using XyWrite is as important to you as it is to me, the best way to do it is through Ubuntu. I understand the need for proprietary programs, and from time to time, unfortunately, I have no choice but to use them. Wine, Linux's Windows emulator, will do for a surprising number of them. When Wine fails, I use VirtualBox to boot XP, which covers everything else. Clearly we differ on MSOffice, which I think has gotten more or more cluttered with needless "features" each version. > Oh sure, if I had nothing else, I could do some work on Linux. But it would take me three times as long and the files would not be exchangeable in the real world. I'm sorry, this is simply not true. But in any case, it's just ridiculous to have to boot a MS product to emulate an older MS product in the hope of getting some version of another MS product working. If I were in your shoes, and XyDos were that important to me, and I were unwilling to see how Adobe products work under a Windows VM in Linux, I would at least exert my curiousity about using a VM to run some version of Linux and dosemu from that. But that's just me. On 12/23/2012 10:30 AM, Bill Troop wrote: At 23/12/2012 15:06, you wrote: |