Buying a Linux laptop, I’m a microsoft man!?
Howdy
I have found a laptop for £200 that gives more than some other laptops i’ve been interested in which cost £80 more and I think this is because the £200 laptop has linux for its o/s.
I’ve never used linux. How easy would be it be to write reports (I’m a student and going to sea in march, gotta right reports at sea too >.>) and have them compatible with microsoft word.
What about the music on my pc that i would wish to transfer, mp3′s and media player tunes?
Or should I pay a bit extra for an o/s i’m familiar with.
Oh the laptop is this one:
Acer Aspire One A150-Aw
The extension won’t be .doc with linux, is the extension compatabile or easily changeable, so the document can be opened on word?
The issue is compatability with microsoft o/s that the college uses. I’ll happily write a report on the given word processor but i can’t be having to download programs at the college (not allowed) so I can open up my report to edit/print off without character/font changes or issues like that.
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Open Office can do just about everything that MS Office can. I think, in my opinion that the *nix mp3 programs that are out there (free, most are) are better then the ones for MS. My personal preference is to use Ubuntu.
Word processors and media players are not significantly different on Linux to Windows.
> The extension won’t be .doc with linux
If you save using Word format, it will be (unless you override it).