--- Richard Rothwell
Our experience is that some of the kids don't like OO.o - prefering for no good reason 'Word'. The
Hehehe, that would be a "I don't like it 'cos it looks different." type of scenario. Kids!
spreadsheet is as good as that other product - except maybe in the text formatting area. Macros are a problem. The presentation graphics tool is excellent and very easy to learn.
The spreadsheet is just as good, if not better than the MS equivilent. While it is not applicable here, the interfaces for other languages (ruby, for instance) and the scripting support for it, surpasses Excel in this instance.
The biggest problem is that it is a different vehicle to drive - especially as the menu structure is, by default, more logical - please can someone tell me why MS put page layout in the file menu where it does not belong? The kids keep winging about not being able to find it!
Having just completed a unit in HCI, I can come to the conclusion that it is a load of horse manure, and things such as menu layouts, and the whole concept of GUIs is nothing more than personal preference.
The staff also complain because it is different. Again, no good reasons for dislike are ever offered.
Give the staff more time to adjust. They will do, eventually.
On the matter of machine speed and memory - the more the better - and even if you are not running LTSP it might be worth considering an application server for OO.o. We successfully use 100MHz clients to run the X session.
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