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<blockquote data-quote="azhrei_fje" data-source="post: 2616139" data-attributes="member: 12966">I had to smile when I read andargor's post.&nbsp; And I was already smiling pretty hard reading some of these other posts.Why do you people put up with such a shoddy operating system!?&nbsp; I mean, I can understand the sentiment that, &quot;it's what I'm used to&quot;, but if you were used to your car being broken into twice a day, wouldn't you consider a different car, one a little less prone to being victimized?&nbsp; Or at least, a different usage pattern for your car?My wife does our (personal) accounting on Quicken.&nbsp; I cringe when I think about it (shudder).&nbsp; My plan is to install VMware on a Linux box next week (when I get back from a business trip) and put Quicken inside.&nbsp; No more downloading data from a bank's web site -- she'll download it using Linux and then access the static file from the Windows side.&nbsp; The goal is to prevent Windows from having any kind of &quot;real-time&quot; access to the network.&nbsp; This won't solve every problem, but until I can get Quicken to run properly under Wine, it's about the best I can do.She does our business accounting on a SUSE Linux machine, with OpenOffice and other tools.&nbsp; And she's gotten good at it!&nbsp; The same machine has our ripped music on it, and she's learning how to burn CDs with K3b.&nbsp; She asked the other day why the Windows CD burning was so much more difficult to use!&nbsp; I had to smile and tell her, &quot;I don't know why. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :("&nbsp; data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />&quot;Sorry, I didn't mean to hijack the thread.&nbsp; But her willingness to try something new -- and succeed at it! -- is very gratifying for me. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="azhrei_fje, post: 2616139, member: 12966"] I had to smile when I read andargor's post. And I was already smiling pretty hard reading some of these other posts. Why do you people put up with such a shoddy operating system!? I mean, I can understand the sentiment that, "it's what I'm used to", but if you were used to your car being broken into twice a day, wouldn't you consider a different car, one a little less prone to being victimized? Or at least, a different usage pattern for your car? My wife does our (personal) accounting on Quicken. I cringe when I think about it (shudder). My plan is to install VMware on a Linux box next week (when I get back from a business trip) and put Quicken inside. No more downloading data from a bank's web site -- she'll download it using Linux and then access the static file from the Windows side. The goal is to prevent Windows from having any kind of "real-time" access to the network. This won't solve every problem, but until I can get Quicken to run properly under Wine, it's about the best I can do. She does our business accounting on a SUSE Linux machine, with OpenOffice and other tools. And she's gotten good at it! The same machine has our ripped music on it, and she's learning how to burn CDs with K3b. She asked the other day why the Windows CD burning was so much more difficult to use! I had to smile and tell her, "I don't know why. :(" Sorry, I didn't mean to hijack the thread. But her willingness to try something new -- and succeed at it! -- is very gratifying for me. :) [/QUOTE]

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