[TriLUG] Win4Lin(was linuux mouse kvm problems)

Lisa C. Boyd lisab at trilug.org
Fri Jan 10 11:26:18 EST 2003


Roy Vestal wrote:
> Be careful. M$ has officially stopped supporting Win95 and plans to stop 
> supporting Win98/Me by the end of Summer 2003. This will affect those 
> that use Win4Lin, suchas myself.

Well, to be honest, I don't use Microsoft support anyways so I wouldn't 
care about calling them with questions :) Although I have Win2k so since 
that isn't supported under Win4Lin I might have to rethink some things.

> Just out of curiosity, why do you still have windows?

The deal is this - I come from a graphics/printing background. I used 
macs several years then switch mostly to PCs and now trying to switch to 
Linux stuff. When I have to do something (most of the time it's on 
deadline and quick ones at that), I have to go with what I know best.

I've used Illustrator/Photoshop/Quark for about 10 years now. It's hard 
to switch over to different programs and work quickly. I know I've heard 
people sing the praises of gimp and I hope to learn it one day, but if I 
have to do anything now - it's going to be in Photoshop thus on Windows. 
I'm not even sure what the corresponding programs might be for 
Illustrator and Quark?

I also have this really cool program that I love to use for CSS 
(TopStyle). It's only for Windows. Granted I could code CSS by hand in 
Quanta (which is what I use for html/php, etc.) but TopStyle has some 
really good features that help me get work done efficiently.

So now that I've probably given you too much info :) that's why I need 
to switch back and forth between Linux and Windows.

Lisa B. :)

PS. I've been dreaming of a Mac OSX machine but even then I'd have to 
buy all my programs (Adobe, Quark) again and some I'd have to either do 
without or use Windows for.




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