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From: Paul Paukstelis paul {- at -} ICMB {- dot -} UTEXAS {- dot -} EDU
Date: 2009-05-04

Ed Pozharski wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-05-02 at 11:50 +0100, mb1pja wrote:
>> .. but OSX gives you Unix AND you can run Word /Powerpoint without
>> rebooting. And you get a user-friendly ergonomic windowing system that
>> kicks the **** out of XP/Vista/KDE/Gnome...
>>
>> best wishes
>>
>> Pete
>
> I guess you should check some compiz videos on youtube... Regarding
> ergonomic features, there are three things I found so addictive I keep
> trying to use them on the Widows machine I have to use (for fairness
> sake, there is no good alternative to Word/Endnote combination when it
> comes to refs):
>

Openoffice with Zotero/Firefox works very nicely for refs. I made the
transition from a dualboot to a Linux-only system a couple of years ago
and there is nothing I miss. If I need windows, Wine or VMware do the trick.

I've seen gnome desktops that look (and presumably function) very much
like OSX.

--paul

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