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Open Office - an assessment
Kintaro:
--- Quote from: SiMuLaCrUm on 20 August 2008, 22:31 ---I like OpenOffice. I don't think it is as bloated as MS Office.
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Who gives a fuck when hard drive space is so fucking cheap and OpenOffice takes ten times longer to start? Even under Crossover Office or Wine MSOffice will start faster than OpenOffice so don't shit in my mouth about preloaded libaries.
worker201:
I'm not really concerned with hard drive space, or loading time. I just want a word processor that stays the fuck out of my way. The mistake of the modern word processor is that it tries to be everything under one roof for businesses. There are thousands of programs that are better at making web pages or laying out company newsletters, and the fact that Word tries to be all of them at once is part of the reason I hate it. Sure, that shit is appealing to corporate customers who have to fork out hundreds of dollars just to get their secretaries a word processor - why wouldn't they want all the useless add-ons "for free"? But in reality, having generations of people learn how to do things in a word processor that should be done somewhere else has led to buckets of people who think that MS Office is the only program you ever need, which has led Microsoft to get fat without innovation, and generally reduces computer knowledge among the white-collar class. If every company in America that produced a newsletter had to use Quark XPress or InDesign for layout (as an example), I honestly think that as a computing culture, we would be better off, even if they used a desktop publishing suite made by Microsoft.
Aloone_Jonez:
--- Quote from: Kintaro on 21 August 2008, 06:01 ---
--- Quote from: SiMuLaCrUm on 20 August 2008, 22:31 ---I like OpenOffice. I don't think it is as bloated as MS Office.
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Who gives a fuck when hard drive space is so fucking cheap and OpenOffice takes ten times longer to start? Even under Crossover Office or Wine MSOffice will start faster than OpenOffice so don't shit in my mouth about preloaded libaries.
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I agree.
I think the problem is that when you load one program, the big fuck off soffice.bin gets loaded into memory which takes ages, using quickstarter helps but not as much as it should.
They should really break the suit down into separate programs.
--- Quote from: worker201 ---MS Office is the only program you ever need
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Isn't that an innovation in itself?
If all you want is a basic word processor then you could try ABIWord. It's much faster than OpenOffice but I don't like it myself, I find it too restrictive and the interface can be a little clumsy - creating and editing tables can be a pain.
worker201:
I didn't know AbiWord was available for Windows, have to check that out. I used to use it in Linux, thought it was great. Gnumeric was good too, but it crashed every 9 minutes or so, it was dreadfully unstable.
If I want a table in my word processor document, I'll put one in using an appropriate program.
--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez on 21 August 2008, 11:43 ---
--- Quote from: worker201 ---MS Office is the only program you ever need
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Isn't that an innovation in itself?
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Technically, yes. An innovation of Microsoft's marketing skills. Which just doesn't impress me, or make me claim that Microsoft is innovating.
Aloone_Jonez:
--- Quote from: worker201 on 21 August 2008, 13:19 ---I didn't know AbiWord was available for Windows, have to check that out.
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Yes it comes in Windows flavour too.
http://www.abisource.com/download/
--- Quote ---If I want a table in my word processor document, I'll put one in using an appropriate program.
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How can you do that?
Last time I checked ABIWord doesn't support OLE so you can't unless there's another way I don't know about.
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