[ Thanks to Carla
Dukart for this link. ]
“I’m not saying that Linux can’t do everything I want. It just
doesn’t do it the way I’m used to. Since I come from the world of
Windows desktops, there are some things I’ve gotten used to and
don’t want to leave just yet. It’s not that Windows does them
better, faster or more reliably; it just does them in a familiar
way. As the Linux Desktop environment continues to evolve many of
these programs will be either ported or similar programs will have
duplicate feature sets. Until that blissful day, there is
VMware.”
“VMware is a virtual machine emulator. It doesn’t emulate any
particular Operating System. It emulates the machine, and it is up
to you to install the OS. In my case I need Windows 98 to run
several programs that I don’t have an equal for under Linux. Below
I’ll give you my install experiences and tell you what I’ve found
to be good and bad about the product. One thing you should to keep
in mind, I generally don’t read the documentation first. There is
no challenge in software with documentation. Beside installation
and operation should be intuitive.”