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Originally Posted by Pazuzu
The real power behind Linux is when you work from the terminal. I had a Linux box as my office workstation for 15 years, with a copy of Windows 7 in a VMware environment for the one single program that we needed which was Windows only.
I don't think I ever used the workstation outside of the terminal. SED, AWK and VM are incredibly powerful for file manipulation.
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But can they read, display and edit a word doc or excel spreadsheet?
I got this Mac and was all excited about having terminal on my home PC, but I haven't found much to do with it which is irritating.
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