On Thu, 19 Jun 2014 16:08:03 -0700, mike
wrote:
snip
Sure, you can get MUCH of the functionality you need,
as long as you're willing
to learn new apps, new procedures, new everything, and convert your data
and just say goodbye to stuff
that isn't compatible. The devil is in the details of that small
percentage of stuff isn't supported in linux, but you feel you
MUST be able to do.
/snip

So do a dual boot installation, and boot as required. My
Ubuntu setup will read most windows files with no problem
and OpenOffice/Libre loads them with no problems.


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