23rd March 2017, 11:34
Hi again. Yes, that article certainly has a strong view, & to someone like me it's hard to know whether i should believe it or not. I also read these, which kinda offer views one way & the other:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/175336/i...buntu-safe
https://askubuntu.com/questions/49255/ri...-with-wine
I'm quite happy to be considered paranoid, so i'm thinking this might give me the best of possibilities:
1. Go the Wine route per your method.
2. Don't bother isolating Wine from my Linux personal files, as that would be quite inconvenient for my opening existing docs & saving new docs (i know how to work around this, but it's a PITA].
3. Do run my Excel, Word & Ppt in Wine in FJ, using the "--protocol=unix" option to stop internet access.
Given i would have no need for these pgms to access the net, & given they would be working exclusively with my own local docs, of my own creation, which i already know are safe, this seems a good method to me coz then Office 2010 will have convenient access to my docs but with zero chance of any nasty malware infections.
Looking fwd now to giving it a go soon. Many thanks again.
https://askubuntu.com/questions/175336/i...buntu-safe
https://askubuntu.com/questions/49255/ri...-with-wine
I'm quite happy to be considered paranoid, so i'm thinking this might give me the best of possibilities:
1. Go the Wine route per your method.
2. Don't bother isolating Wine from my Linux personal files, as that would be quite inconvenient for my opening existing docs & saving new docs (i know how to work around this, but it's a PITA].
3. Do run my Excel, Word & Ppt in Wine in FJ, using the "--protocol=unix" option to stop internet access.
Given i would have no need for these pgms to access the net, & given they would be working exclusively with my own local docs, of my own creation, which i already know are safe, this seems a good method to me coz then Office 2010 will have convenient access to my docs but with zero chance of any nasty malware infections.
Looking fwd now to giving it a go soon. Many thanks again.