Re: Who SERIOUSLY uses Linux for SERIOUS WORK, seriously?

Date	2011-06-15 22:46 +0200
From	David Brown <david.brown@removethis.hesbynett.no>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.os.linux.setup
Subject	Re: Who SERIOUSLY uses Linux for SERIOUS WORK, seriously?
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On 15/06/11 17:00, flatfish+++ wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 11:19:00 +0200, David Brown wrote:
>
>> On 14/06/2011 19:20, RayLopez99 wrote:
>>> On Jun 14, 4:09 pm, David Brown<da...@westcontrol.removethisbit.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> On 14/06/2011 14:02, Chris wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Am Tue, 14 Jun 2011 03:58:21 -0700 schrieb RayLopez99:
>>>>
>>>>>> Serious Work is a defined term.
>>>>
>>>>> But I still don't understand the point of this thread.
>>>>> Clearly the definition of "Serious Work" being so different from "serious
>>>>> work" is not a good way to do this at all.
>>>>
>>>> Ray's point was to define his phrase "SERIOUS WORK" to be something that
>>>> Linux users don't do, and then place a troll epost asking if any Linux
>>>> users do "SERIOUS WORK" by that definition.  It's a circular argument -
>>>> he is asking if anyone uses particular named Windows-specific software
>>>> on their Linux machines even though there are better open-source
>>>> alternatives.
>>>
>>> Actually that's not a bad synopsis, aside from the name calling.
>>>
>>> So I ask you, David Brown, in your 'learned opinion' whether you think
>>> Wine would be a good place to do Serious Work in Linux?
>>>
>>>   From the horror stories involving Wine I doubt it, but I've never used
>>> it.
>>>
>
>> Personally, if I need to use Windows-only software, I mostly run it on a
>> Windows virtual machine.  Just like if I need to run Linux-only software
>> on the XP machine at the office, I'd run it on a Linux virtual machine
>> (although there is less need of that since I got a dedicated Linux
>> machine at the office).
>
> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.17)
> Gecko/20110414 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.10
>
> Snicker.......
>

Perhaps I wasn't clear, or you didn't read anything else I've written. 
I use both Windows and Linux, and a lot of software I use runs equally 
on both.  I have two work machines - one XP, one Linux.  My home 
machines are all Linux.  But if I want to use Windows-only software on 
my Linux machines, which was the question here, I said I usually do so 
in a Windows virtual machine rather than using Wine.

For several reasons, I often prefer to run Windows software at the 
office in a Windows virtual machine on the Linux host, rather than 
natively on the XP machine.  But for general-purpose software like 
Thunderbird, I use whichever machine is most convenient at the time 
regardless of the OS.

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  Re: Who SERIOUSLY uses Linux for SERIOUS WORK, seriously? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-06-10 23:36 +0100
    Re: Who SERIOUSLY uses Linux for SERIOUS WORK, seriously? flatfish+++ <flatfish@marianatrench.com> - 2011-06-10 18:36 -0400
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        Re: Who SERIOUSLY uses Linux for SERIOUS WORK, seriously? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-06-11 12:25 +0100
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