Originally Posted By: haertig
Switch to Linux with opensource software downloads from various free repositories (Internet-based), and you save hundreds and hundreds, if not thousands of dollars over a PC running expensive Windows OS with all the associated programs you have to buy (Word, Excel, virus scanner, malware detectors, backup/imaging software, etc.)


Very good point. I had forgotten about all the perfectly good and free software there is on-line.

One of the best IMHO is Open office which can substitute for MS Word. I also like Abi-word.