On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 08:50, kathee wrote: t.
So, if MS Office is your tool of choice, stick with it and stick with Windoze (or use CrossOver like I do if I really have to).
I thought the guy made it very clear he was a linux advocate and worked with Linux for a long time has become frustrated with the experience. You can like something and still be frustrated by its shortcomings. I know this for sure since I use Gnome2.0 without menu editing still :->. He is blowing off steam. People get far too serious too quick. As a CTO it seems that you should see this after don't your employees do this sometimes. The guy was harsh but sometimes you have to be. I use SuSE at work and Redhat 8.0 at home. OpenOffice still looks nasty on SuSE but right out of the box it looks good on RedHat. BTW, yes I do know all the tricks about how to make OpenOffice look decent in regard to the fonts inside the app and in the documents. Still, an enduser should not have to deal with this.
I travel every week and I watch people "scream" at ticket agents, hotel employees and the like. It gets them nothing.
But he is fussing to the community not calling up SuSE tech support personally giving them hell. There is a big difference.
On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 23:55, Salman Khilji wrote:
6. Let's see if OpenOffice as installed and polished by Suse is able to impress this business user: The default font in OpenOffice is Times.
Yes, I agree. I installed OO on my computer and uninstalled it within half-an-hour. Too disappointing. I would wait for a few more years (if Linux survives a few more years of course) to come back to Office suites on Linux. For me, MS Office still is the best choice. (Although I don't do much Word Processing at all).
On the subject of Word Processing I still like WordPerfect 8.0 the best. OpenOffice is nice but since I like Gnome I feel that Abiword for my tastes has the nicest interface -- now if they get tables and better Word imports I will stick with them. -- Johnathan Bailes BAE Systems ESI "UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things." - Doug Gwyn ---