The Average Week of a Linux Guy in an MS Windows World

"Mint 4.0 has been performing flawlessly so far. Here I am on week two of using it, after taking a chance that it would be OK, based on testing of both Ubuntu 7.10 before and things I did on my personal Acer. Along the way I have found out a few things that may be helping my overall stability.

"First up: OpenOffice 2.3 is just amazing. I have worked on two presentations, where people sent me MS formatted presentations that I had to add content to and then send on to the next person for their edits and updates. Back and forth these things flowed via email, culminating in two presentations, where the presenter was a person running MS Windows with a copy of my slide deck piled into a much bigger slide deck..."

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