After talking about it for a year or two, I'm finally on the verge of getting a new computer and thought I'd get some hints. From the WordPerfect forum I use, it would seem that one should make sure to get Windows XP Professional and not Home - do you know anything about these?
I know you like Linux. It's always sounded interesting. Now that I'll have room, I could consider it. However, since the XP would also be on the computer and since they are both operating systems, I don't quite understand how that would work. At one point I think WordPerfect was developing a version to work with Linux, but I don't know if anything really came of that. If one uses Linux, will the regular programs work?
Any opinions on anti-virus programs? McAfee came with this computer and I've kept it up ever since. If I get Gateway again (which I think I will), it comes with 3 months of Norton. On the WordPerfect forum, again, someone recently indicated that he feels Norton is no good. However, some of them seem to feel the same way about McAfee!! They recommended a few other programs, and I think one of those is free. The names mentioned were: ViRobot, Panda, and AVG. I think AVG is the one I've noticed a few of them recommending and I think that's the one that's free. I've always been reluctant to switch to anything else. I assume I'll accept the 3 months of Norton and then decide whether to subscribe to them or go back to McAfee.
When I got my current one, it has a 4 GB hard drive (which sounded enormous at the time; I was going from 212 MB!!), at that time it had to be subdivided and came as C and D drives. The pre-installed programs and most others I've installed (Fax, Acrobat, WinZip and anything else that came along) are on C. I have WP and all of my own files on D.
I kind of liked that separation. However, it's C that's almost full, while there's still more room on D (by now that's getting pretty full, too, though). One salesman seemed surprised when he learned of the partition and I said it had to be that way back then. He advised to never partition.
With the large size of drives these days, since it would be a major undertaking to partition it once it's set up, I thought I'd solicit opinions as to whether it's better to have the one huge drive or partitions.
I think that's it for now!!