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It's very good and all, and I'm glad more people are switching to Linux for their desktops (I mean, THIS is the year of Linux on the desktop, isn't it?).

But seriously, the rambling about printers and Word... You are not supposed to use Word files as a platform-independent Portable Document Format. I mean, for that we have, you know, the Portable Document Format (euh... PDF), for example. Just export to PDF and you can print it wherever, and it will look just fine.

Also, running Wine for Notepad++ seems... excessive.

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> Also, running Wine for Notepad++ seems... excessive.

Especially when you can run something like Sublime Text.

The default text editor (gEdit) is a competent equivalent of notepad++, it's just that you have to enable some things which would do programming better.

Agreed, but bear in mind that the author is already having to learn a bunch of new software packages to replace many other things from his previous experience.

Being able to delay a few new learning experiences for later makes for smoother switching.

By the time he's ready to tackle that one, he might be ready to skip past ST and go straight to Vim. ;)

Having to deal with the weirdness that is the simulated 'windows file system' every time you open when running a Wine app is much harder than just learning how to use gEdit with all the plugins you'll ever need. Or Kate.

And yet, there he goes, using it, happy as a clam.

Haha, after all these years of knowing the expression "happy as a clam", it still cracks me up. Go figure.

I use Vim half the time and ST the other half.

I would never try to push Vim on someone who already uses ST. It is that good.

My only reason to use Vim is editing remote files, or config files.

Especially when you already have Virtualbox set up for your MS Office

Wine is much nicer than virtualization, when it works flawlessly.

I'm thinking about running Wine for HeidiSQL.

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