The website portion you mention is not a function of Linux. Rather, this is a function of the browser, and you can certainly download/use a variety of different browsers under Linux until you find one with which you're comfortable. The thing to remember here is that many people program web pages to use Microsoft's Java Script support which IE supports more than anyone else (because it's Microsoft). There have always been the browser wars (this site best viewed using...[Netscape, IE]). I've run into precious few web pages that don't work under Mozilla. In fact, where I work uses an Exchange server with Outlook Web Access as a messaging system. I always pull up OWA using Mozilla -- no problems -- buy you'd think there would be :) (Yes, my company went backward a couple of years ago and removed the LINUX mail server only to replace it with an Exchange server. It took them a week "above and beyond" to get everything running alright.) > Jason Reynolds wrote: > >>I have had linux running on my laptop for a few months now. I have has >> Suse >>9.1 Professional, Mandrake 10.0 and now Gentoo. It seems that I always >> get >>myself into situations where I need to use a windows box to do something. >> An >>example is playing movie files that just don't seem to play, or visiting >>websites with a funny commercial on them. It always seems to be an >> effort. >>There are a few other people I know that are running Linux, and everyone >> had >>some minor problem playing a file. >> >>Am I the only one that has this problem? I really, really want to kiss >> Windows >>goodbye as much as I can, but it's hard when I keep having to use it as a >>crutch. It's also difficult to defent the "I don't use linux, because I >> don't >>want to use a hobby os" when I'm doing all this work to get things that >> just >>work in windows to function. >> >>Any tips or tricks or websites I may be missing. I just want Gentoo and >> KDE to >>do everything my heart desires. I really love using Linux and don't want >> to >>have to give it up again so I can be really productive again. >> >>Jason Reynolds >> >>_______________________________________________ >>TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org >>Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery >>tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org > Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list