Phillip Chandler wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 13:07 +0100, Hugo Mills wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 12:59:51PM +0100, Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Damian Brasher<lug@???> wrote:
>>>> Some of you may know this, anti-aliasing has been available since 7th May.
>>>> Great news and I am already getting stuck in to some new illustrations.
>>> Is it still a bloated an unstable pile of crap?
>> Their aims appear to be to reproduce MS Office exactly, so yes.
>
> Ive never found MS Office to be bloated. But then all Ive needed is
> Word, Excel and Outlook. Im currently running Those three MS products
> under Crossover & Ubuntu 9.04, and found that they are only 197mb
> install, whereas OO is roundabout the 350-400mb size, and OO doesnt
> include email which is extra (Evolution). Plus MS runs faster under
> Crossover compared to the OO alternatives, by a minimum of at least 4
> seconds.
>
> Ive never heard of anti-aliasing (thingy) and my post is probably
> pointless and not worth reading. MS in the context of what your
> discussing probably is bloated. But I wanted to point out that MS
> Office, in the general scheme of things, is actually better than OO, if
> you are just looking for Word and Excel. But then everything has its
> good points, and bad points too.
>
> Now your all wondering whether 4 seconds is worth it, but then that
> depends on your sex, and what your minds are thinking of at the
> time. :-)))))
>
>
Don't forget you need a valid MS office license to run under Crossover
and that doesn't mean just because you have the windows version you can
install another in Linux. Are you happy paying £200+ for that?
OO is free to download and use. OO not only supports MS formats but its
own document formats, Writer using the ISO standard ODT, unlike MS
office. It also has direct PDF export which is very useful.
The majority of people will find OO good enough to use and its startup
speed will improve as it is being improved all the time.
For those who think MS office or OO are too bloated, well suggest an
alternative rather than saying both are rubbish. We all need to use
something to compose letters, create spreadsheets and presentations and
I'm very happy with OO for that.
John.
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