*-* On Fri, 07 Dec 2012, at 12:26:21 -0500,
*-* In Article ,
*-* Frank wrote
*-* About Frank Jr's restore

Just saw this on his Facebook:

Dad's 6 year old PC had a virus & was inoperable...Three hours
later, its a system restore to factory settings , patch updates, and
it runs like a dog.....New Computer ? Another restore ? Ubuntu to
the rescue....30 minutes later a perfectly fine running desktop
running free Linux...taking down the evil empire 1 PC at a time...

Can I live with Linux?

Thunderbird and Firefox will probably be OK but what if I need to
run others like Turbotax?

Any thoughts?

You might take a look at Wine, which enables most Windows
programs to run under Linux.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_%28software%29
http://www.winehq.org/

Ken Whiton
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