At 10:34:03 AM 2/16/2001, Chris Allen wrote:
Well, I did it. After my "Linux is not for desktops?" post, I had many messages of advice and suggestions - and I have finally turned off my windows machine for good.
I'm now using:
Mail: mutt - took some getting used to, but I'm now amazed at how powerful it is. I can do things with a couple of keypresses that I wouldn't have considered in Eudora!
News: slrn - Again totally different philosophy to Agent, but well worth the effort... Now all my news is collected by slrnpull, and I can read quickly whenever I want to.
Have you tried Agent under WINE?
Office: StarOffice. It does all it can to make MSOffice people feel at home, but I'm still having a few problems.
StarOffice is a nice package. Another one to consider might be WordPerfect Office for Linux. As a long time WordPerfect user, I'm really glad that this app has been ported over to Linux.