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Re: With all these brilliant coders out there :

@fatbuddha

Suggested strategy:

1. Linux (or BSD but in these days of systemd Linux is probably closer to what you're familiar with).

2. Use the native Linux or BSD tools as far as you can. This is probably further than you think and a lot further than the naysayers who last tried OO in 2008 think.

3. Where there's no suitable native tool run the preferred Windows tool under Wine or Crossover.

4. For the cases where the Windows tool won't run under Wine or Crossover run Windows in a VM. An old copy of W2K may do fine and won't try to install spyware even if you let it connect to the net.

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