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<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"><br>Depending on what city you live in and how large it is you may want to search for your local LUG. That's Linus Users Group, most of these groups have a mailing list they help each other with wide variety of problems, and in the bigger cities they have 'install parties' where geeks get together with hardware and install linux on it.
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<div>Do you know where I can find a list of LUG's and find out if there is one in the Albany, NY area?</div><br>
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<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff">Use OpenOffice.org to get away from Office, ever since 2.0 I have had no problems cross saving files between MS and OOo. <snip></div></blockquote>
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<div>I will try out the new version of OOo, and maybe convince the wife, but we'll see.</div><br>
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<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff">I ran WoW briefly in Cedega, performance was kind of "meh" for me. I've heard reports that straight wine actually runs it better than Cedega, but IMHO nothing will run it at as smoothly as Windows. Also every now and then a patch from Blizzard will break something with wine, causing you to spend the next day or two surfing some forums to get a fix for it. You'd probably be happier dual booting for games.
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<div>that's my issue here. Since having a baby i really dont' spend too much time on the computer, or anything else for that matter. As it is my xbox 360 is collecting dust (waited in line, found out we were pregnant 3 weeks later, waste of money). So when I do get on a computer, it usually is to play WoW. Don't want to buy Vista at all, so was trying to ease myself into Linux and get off from my dependence on Windows.
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<div>Sincerely,</div>
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<div>MacNean C. Tyrrell</div></div>