On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 08:51:09PM -0500, Lee O'Malley wrote:
Staroffice looks like it can compete quite well with Microsoft Office, and KDE is as good or better a GUI than Windows 9x or XP. The main problem is that the user, unless he relies on a support desk for everything, must know how to configure text files and use a command line. Although YAST hides
Now on a more serious note! I agree with Joshua that I think the office suites would compare quite well to anything Windows has for the average office desktop user. With the new StarOffice 6.0 out, I think it may even surpass MS Office products. All other programs they might
I use Open Office, which is the open-source relative of Star Office. Maybe when a release version of StarOffice 6 is out, I'll bother to fill out the forms and download it at 56k, or upgrade my SuSE distro to one that has it. :-) That having been said I don't do much word processing, though I'm thinking of teaching myself LaTEX for the heck of it.
I have to say that unless you are a gamer, there is much software
I'm not a "gamer", but that is the one thing I use the Windows XP that came with my computer for, to play games. Obligational on topic comment, I can't seem to get Loki software's utility to download and install game software on my system. (SuSE 7.2 personal)
either. KDE is grown up now and I think we would be hard pressed to find a GUI much better, that keeps getting better too!
KDE is superior to WinXP and Win9x/NT/2000 because it has multiple desktops and better handling of multiple windows.
Where I might disagree is the part of having to use a shell or configure text files. Everything your desktop user wants to do can be done thru a GUI type program now and anything deeper is done by the system administrator anyway. YAST does hide things from the normal
Yes, but when things don't work, or new software doesn't install, it can cost money to have experts work on it when in that other OS things seem to configure (or misconfigure) right out of the box.
think SuSE understands that. There should no reason for the user to get "under the hood", that doesn't come under their job title anyway.
That's a good point. However, sometimes it's neccesary - and that means that it has a ways to go before it'll be the dominant desktop OS for most users. (Not including of course this one.)
in using it. Some of you guys and I would too, say that if we couldn't tweak, we wouldn't use it,
I resemble that remark!