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I use VirtualBox as well. And I also use WINE, but even though you can run Office 2K7 (and you can't go around it as a student, in particular as a business stud
by mkuhn 17y ago
I use VirtualBox as well. And I also use WINE, but even though you can run Office 2K7 (and you can't go around it as a student, in particular as a business student) in WINE, which I do for short edits and to only view documents, I still mainly use Office on the emulated WinXP. Office fells snappier on the emulated machine, and especially because of Antialiasing of fonts text is easier to read. Overall it's just nicer to work with and it crashes a lot less... :-)
I've now been running Ubuntu for over a year for my own side business, for my consulting gig and as a student and I haven't had any issue I couldn't solve and one of the main solutions is to bow to the majority in some cases and use emulated XP or WINE.
- sandGorgon 17y agoUse autohinting [http://www.spodesabode.com/discussion/51/making-ubuntu-look-better/ http://www.spodesabode.com/discussion/51/making-ubuntu-look-...] and Droid fonts and u'll see what a difference it makes
- buugs 17y agoThank goodness in my engineering department matlab or excel are acceptable. Matlab works well in linux and is a much cheaper more powerful option than the office student edition paired with openoffice. (My school runs 2003 office though so thats a big difference in teachers required file formats). The new ubuntu has better font smoothing by default however I don't think that transfers into wine sadly but at least you found a setup that works.