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On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 10:52:06 -0500, in
internal.mailing-list.computers.pc-build you wrote:
> Microsoft never intended to support Win Me, which iw why software
> developers merely did patchesfor their stuff to run on Win Me. It was
> just another grab for money until they finished the real project, Win
> XP. As I did with Win 98, I'll be spending a lot of time tweaking Win
> Me, and finding workarounds if and until I decide I want to indenture
> myself to Bill Gates by buying Win XP. Hopefully someone will come
> out with an OS that runs out of the box, is stable, and which will
> motivate programmers to write apps for it. I have a lot of good stuff
> that works on Win 98, and am not prepared to take a big financial hit
> by throwing it away at this point for an OS that none of it will run
> on.
I know how you feel. I would love to dump Windows and move to Linux.
I know they have Wine, which I assume is a Windows emulator on which I
could run my mail/newsreader, but will it run all my favorite
Windows98 programs, or does it just happen to work well with Agent?
What about my Winmodem? Will a winmodem work under Wine?
Furthermore, I have a lot of customizations I've installed to Internet
Explorer. Does the Linux Netscape have as many of those well used
features?
I may give Linux a try once I get my satellite internet access up and
running. But even then, I'll need a partition with Win98 so I can
play games and things like that.
Ethan
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