On Mon, 03 Jul 2000, Jim Travnick wrote:
> Hello hope sombody out there will take pitty on this new user but im
> getting real confused here i see everyone talking about comands to do
> this or that but i cant figure out how or why there in what i asume is
> the comand line why doesnt anybody use the GUI?? when i set linux up i
> set it up to boot to gnome which im starting to think was not a good
> idea cant you do these things in there? or am i just to used to windows?
> now before everybody starts flaming me with things like well what are
> you trying to do all im trying right now is to get away from windows, i
> run spreadsheets for work, a little word processing, picture scanning,
> and internet surfing.
> I am not looking to write any programs, I build systems for people. I
> am mainly looking for a better alternative to Windows, but once I have
> Linux in, I have no idea what to do with it.
>
What commands are you wanting to run??? Sure there's a LOT
of word processors available for Linux that are GUI
programs -- Word Perfect, Star Office, KOffice (when it's
released,) etc. Star Office has a spread sheet available,
and Word Perfect Office for Linux probably does as well.
As for picture scanning, I *think* you can do that with
GIMP, once you've got your scanner hooked up and
configured. I don't know much about scanning under Windows
OR Linux.....
What other apps are you looking for?
John
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