Linux and Windows Side by Side
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skittle
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The chances of this happening are not even worth thinking about.
The most likely scenario is that you download an infected file on Linux, but its code cannot execute on Linux but if you transfer the file to a windows PC then windows can be infected.
My suggestion is to ditch windows if you are truly worried about it. Why use windows at all if you are just using it to "store files"? Makes no sense...
Aristotelian
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Depends on your competence with Linux and your needs...but if there is no special reason keeping you in Windows, you can certainly ditch it. The main reasons people might stay with Windows are 1) lack of games in Linux 2) the business world tends to use MS Office and professionals feel like they need to have Windows or Mac to work with colleagues and 3) people do not want to have to take the time to do any troubleshooting or tweaking. If those things do not apply to you, then go ahead and make the move to Linux.
Well, I'm not just using Windows XP to store files, but support for XP is ending on April 8, and I can't afford to buy a new pc and I don't think Windows 7 will install properly on my ten year old machine, so that is why I was thinking of just keeping it to store files. But I guess if I install Linux as my only OS, I can store files there instead.
Linux is new to me.
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Yes, you can open and save in .doc format in both OpenOffice and LibreOffice. Sometimes you will lose formatting and advanced features (such as "track changes") but otherwise it is pretty seamless. You can also work in the cloud using Google Docs or Microsoft Skydrive through a Linux web browser. You only really need Windows if you need 100% seamless compatibility.
Well, I do play internet games, but my Mac mini still lets me do that. I mainly use my pc for checking email, submitting poetry to various journals, working on Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator (Gimp on my Mac).
Frankly, I love Windows and prefer it, but I am in no position to buy a new pc or spend hundreds of dollars to upgrade to Windows 7 if my pc cannot handle it.
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