tbeltrans
Senior Member
Whoa there Kemosahbee! Microsoft Office, Not Windows! I do not have Windows on my iMac Pro and, quite frankly, only find Office useful once or twice a year but still, the worst tool in the tool box is occasionally just the tool needed, if you catch my meaning. Don...
OK, calm down. It was meant to be a joke anyway. I missed that one, you are correct.
My wife used to work in an office that used Macs, but they had Microsoft Office installed. She complained that it crashed frequently (i.e. was far less stable than its Windows counterpart) and the individual components (at least the word processor) was less capable than its Windows counterpart. That I probably why I assumed that you might have been running Windows in a virtual computer to run the "real" Office. I know a number of Mac people who do that. I think the things is called "Windows Bootcamp" or some such.
Though I run Windows (for now) on my laptops, my applications are typically from the Open Source community. I use Thunderbird for email, Libre Office for my office app, and either Firefox or Chrome for my browser, as but a few examples. So a switch to Linux will be relatively easy. The only commercial app I use is Transcribe! for learning music off recordings by ear. That is available for Mac, Windows, and Linux.
I am running a Linux distribution from a large capacity USB flash drive with persistent storage configured. Since I have used Linux as both my development environment and embedded target for many years in engineering, I am comfortable with the environment and intend to fully switch over at some point.
The reason I don't use Macs is that I have always had PCs in my work environment (usually running Linux), so that is what I know. I feel it would be rather expensive to switch over to the Apple ecosystem at this point. Outside the tech environment that I have worked in, the majority of people satisfied with their computing experience seem to be Apple owners, so that definitely says something.
Tony
