From: MikeE@ster.invalid   
      
   John C. wrote:   
   > Mike Easter wrote:   
   >> John C. wrote:   
   >>> To that end, I intend to set up one of my computers with one of the   
   >>> distros. Then I need to begin the process of either finding a way to   
   >>> make Windows compatible software run with Wine on that OS or else   
   >>> find alternatives that will run natively.   
   >>   
   >> Name the windows software that you spend the most time; say 4 or 5.   
   >   
   > Mike, I have well over 600 carefully organized shortcuts in my Start   
   > Menu. Responding to your request would be akin to a huge college   
   > homework assignment because it would take a lot of work to narrow it down.   
   >   
   I wasn't asking for a mathematical analysis; I was thinking of just your   
   answering 'instinctively'.   
      
   I spend more time in Tb w/ usenet (occsly some other news agent such as   
   Claws), my browser (Firefox or Chrome, sometimes Chromium), some console   
   or another (gnome terminal most recently), some text editor or another,   
   LibreOffice Writer, a very small amount of time in IrfanView and a   
   similar time in PDFXChange Viewer, in Win, not WINE.   
      
   The reason for mentioning those is not based on how much time I spend in   
   them, but to indicate that unlike some linux buffs who either totally   
   eschew Windows emotionally or logistically, I don't do that.   
      
   If I find that I want to use a tool that works in Android, then I do   
   that; likewise Win. But my preferred everyday almost all of the time   
   system is linux, currently LM. Scores of others as live.   
      
   I have no idea where your interest in exploring linux will go; 30 years   
   ago when I was W95 I got interested in exploring linux.   
      
      
   --   
   Mike Easter   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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