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On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 15:47 +0100, Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Thu, 1 Sep 2011, Gibbs wrote: > > > On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 15:17 +0100, Philip Hudson wrote: > >> I take that to mean: without debian-unofficial, etc, repos. Try > >> Ubuntu, Mint or (maybe) Fedora instead. > > > > This. For someone not acquainted with Linux, isn't technical and doesn't > > care I would go down that route. > > But when do you stop? > > I read stories here of people trying one distro after another and so on, > just to make some obscure bit of hardware work - rather than actually stop > and try to analyse the issue at hand. > > Debian 6 is fine. I consider the non-us and non-free respositories to be > part of the package - i'm not a complete flossy advocate by any means. > Wifeys PC plays region coded DVDs without any issues... > > And becasue my wifes technical support (me) has been using Debian since > 0.96r1 then she'll be using Debian and get my help, or she can use MS and > pay for help from someone else. > > > As far as docx files go I've never had one crash (I use Linux > > exclusively at work). I have had an issue with images showing up from > > time to time though. > > Feel free to try this one: http://unicorn.drogon.net/xxx.docx > Opens fine 15 pages with some "text box formatting errors" Fedora 14 with OpenOffice 3.3.0 have you the MS fonts package installed? > I have sorted the issue by feeding it through a 3rd party converter, but > even then it came out wrong. > > > The most common office related issue I have is with someone sending me > > a .pub Microsoft Publisher file every month or so. I have to convert it > > to PDF (ugh) using online tools. There might be an equivalent for docx > > files. > > > > In terms on Skype... I don't use it much but its worked fine. I don't > > think its ever come out of beta though and as Microsoft is now at the > > helm I can't see much progress being made in the near future. > > It's a shame standards based stuff is simply not ready for the masses, but > one day... > > Gordon > -- ________________________________________________________________________ Regards Kevin Lucas Minions Post Master(Sub) sip:kevin.lucas@xxxxxxxxx www.minionsbandb.co.uk www.tearooms.minionsbandb.co.uk FaceBook Minions_shop Po House, Minions, Liskeard Cornwall PL14 5LE 01579363386 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq