Manoj Srivastava wrote:
My wife was trying to burn a DVD on windows trhe other day.
Crashed her XP bos. ANd then the software would refuse to copy some files. And refused to recognize the blank DVD. I had to burn the DVD on Debian after that.
It is surprising that after being a power user and an expert in Linux, you still have a Windows partition in your system and it is used too. If linux experts ( I mean all experts) find Windows crappy, then why do they still have the partition in their systems?
At my place, I got a legal XP pro regularly updated and running since many years but nobody is allowed to use it and everyone has to compulsorily use Linux, except in extreme cases where even I cannot get that job done the Linux way. Even for documents they have to use open formats only. For some reason my printer sharing does not work in Linux and Windows is only a few clicks away, still everyone has to save their files on a pen drive and bring it to the main system in Linux only. Even digital camera pics have to be downloaded in Linux only.
You should hear how often word screw up formatting for stuff
send by other word users who are using differet versions of word.
A few years ago, I recollect upgrading my OOo to the latest version and a .doc file created in the earlier OO got its columns messed up in the latest version.