Hi!
I have installed ubuntu out of an error, a bit of frustration, a bit of annoyance and a bit of excitement! I am (was!) a windows user. I had windows 7 on my laptop. You might already know how famous windows is with nasty viruses. I got one too! Had no option but to get rid of the whole OS. I installed ubuntu - mainly because it was free! But the main factor was, google said, it's not that hard to learn using ubuntu! So I had to give it a go after being annoyed at Windows - it ruined my documents! Rant over.
So now, I have ubuntu. Love it to bits. Like the new things I am finding. Few things I am very used to in Windows are:
- Microsoft Office
- Driving test (UK) on CD
- VPN Client at my Uni
- Minitab and SPSS softwares at Uni
- My Seagate hard-drive which is password encrypted
- and few more..
but the once listed above are major and daily used programmes (when I had windows!) My university does not support anything to do with Linux so this forum is THE hope for me!
I found WINEHQ over the internet. Installed it. I don't know if I have correct packages etc with it. But it mostly runs all my .exe formats when I tried to install them. It installed Minitab perfectly and so it did with Spotify. What it din't install well is my Driving test (UK) CD and Microsoft Office - It installed them but the 'tick boxes' and some other contents are not visible at all. It opens a grayish windows like box with nothing written in it! It runs the CD but with a huge gray screen and nothing to read or click on it!!
It din't install SPSS and gave me string of errors! And same was the case with VPN!
As for my hard-drive - it doesn't like it! It doesn't mount it! (I guess because it's got a Seagate manager.exe that needs to be installed). So I tried Wine to see if it installs. It installed the setup but then does nothing! Can't mount it! I am guessing it's because of encryption, but is there no way around it?
I don't have Windows anymore on my laptop. I don't intend to ever go back to windows! But these are some key programmes I need daily with my project, studies and work! If I can get them working, I can save myself from living terrible computing life with Windows!
Please help me!!
Ps: As my name says, I am a complete noob with Linux language, terminal commands, etc. If there is a solution, please can you give me a step by step noob language guide? I hope there is someone out there who will save me from going back to Windows.. I love Ubuntu, please save me from Windows!!
Fingers crossed....