Rick Evans said: I would change my entire office to Linux if I could just figure out how to make the fonts appear as crisply as they appear in windows.
I have not tried this myself yet, but reportedly, the new Lycoris distro (formerly Redmond Linux) does a wonderful job of handling fonts and is perhaps the best Linux yet for desktop use. (It's pretty much desktop-only, though, kind of the desktop focused equivalent of SME's focus on the server. In fact, it doesn't even come with dev tools as standard, although they're available.) Lycoris is based on Caldera, which is my favorite of all Linux distros, as it has the best managemant model I've seen, and was realy engineered, not just hacked together. The new Mandrake is apparently also quite good in the font department, but again, I've not tried it yet.
I could do fine for general use with Linux and StarOffice 6, which is really quite impressive, but I more or less have to keep one foot in the Windows world because there are no viable alternatives to Visio and, to a lesser degree, Project. I use Visio both as a diagramming and drawing/CAD tool. StarDraw could replace much of Visio, but it's not quite there yet, especially for data-driven diagrams. As for CAD, the pickings are slim in the Linux world - there are a number of mediocre packages, but few good ones. Sigh...maybe Ashlar will come through someday.
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