HisManySongs

I've been thinking of doing the same. Beyond the replacements for Office and IE, what applications are available?

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Go after a life of love as if your life depended on it—because it does. - 1 Corinthians 14:1 (The Message)

We are called to take His Light ... Shalom and Keep the Son in Your eyes!

Posters on my Pastor's wall:
I know you believe you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize what you heard is not what I meant.
Blessed are the flexible for they shall not be bent out of shape.

Humble Christian

There are many powerful open source projects. Here is a really good site that links to many of these programs.

http://www.osalt.com/

You can replace say Photoshop with Gimp and Audition with Audacity for audio manipulation. The list goes on and on.

Honestly I miss nothing after switching to Open Office. The programs can open their M$ counterpart files and can also save in M$ formats. You should take it for a test run...just install it and don't make it the default program for M$ files until you decide to remove M$ from your life.

HisManySongs

Thanks

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Go after a life of love as if your life depended on it—because it does. - 1 Corinthians 14:1 (The Message)

We are called to take His Light ... Shalom and Keep the Son in Your eyes!

Posters on my Pastor's wall:
I know you believe you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize what you heard is not what I meant.
Blessed are the flexible for they shall not be bent out of shape.

Boanerges

"I decided a couple months ago to stop using all M$ products "
"I have Intel Dual Core 3.20 Ghz processors."
HMMM-LOL- you should have went with the superior power of AMD Athalon- they will perform an Intel chip regardless of the specs.

I have used Open Office before and find it does everything I could want except that it has compatability issues with the Microsoft Word most businesses seem to be using in these parts ( perhaps that has been corrected?)- other than that it is a terrific program.
And by the way HC thanks for the links - your brother Larry

Banarenth

Athlon tends to out perform Intel in some apps, particularly gameing and 3D rendering programs. However, Intel usually does significantly better in benchmarks using general apps, and specifically with photoshop suites. Most likely because the programs are streamlined that way, or because M$ has built better support into Windows. Either way, either processor should be more than enough to keep you happy.

reekie

Dear Christian 73,
Your browser may have to depend on your ISP. I tried IE7 abd had some dtrange things happen.
Then, reading a letter in "WHICH" from another "Silver Surfer" I found out that it did not work well with TalkTalk ISP.
So I went back to IE6 and the problems vanished as I too use TalkTalk.
Now TalkTalk has bought AOL in Britain and I find that my Epson Stylus DX3800 or Epson Scanner 2400 will no scan to e-mail with AOL.
Will we ever win - and they sign you up for eighteen months.?????
God Bless and keep you all.
reekie

macrohard

Exclusively use Firefox, only use IE if I have too. (Wont use IE7, because of issues of it with the software we use. {use IE6}

Opera is also another great browser.

zepernick

Firefox all the way

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Paul Zepernick

Is. 53 : 5 "But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was upon him,
and by his wounds we are healed."

Heb 11 : 1 "Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see."

avlight

FIREFOX!!!!

I love GIMP on Linux. All the Windows versions I have tried have crashed and burned.

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Boanerges

I can honestly say I haven't had any trouble with Windows in a very long time. I am of course a stickler for detail when it comes to running virusscans, disk defrag , anti spyware and updates.