[CLUE-Talk] Re: [CLUE-Tech] MS Office on Linux -- would you?

[Angelo Bertolli]

[I'm continuing this over on talk.]

One thing I don't like about OpenOffice is that it takes so long to 
load.  It seems to load everything for each individual piece of software 
in OpenOffice which takes forever the first time.  I guess it's like 
Mozilla.  Shouldn't they be moving more towards individual office programs?

Angelo

Matt Gushee wrote:

>On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 08:12:30PM -0700, Michael Riversong wrote:
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>>If you know exactly how to get it for Linux, i would be interested.  I 
>>have a copy of it for Corel Linux 1.2, but that whole distribution was 
>>abandoned and sold off to Xandros.  Have tried to install that dist. 
>>several times lately on various computers, but it has been very buggy so 
>>no attempt has yet succeeded.  I haven't seen or heard about any other 
>>easily obtainable version of Word Perfect since late 2001.
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>The other poster has suggested where to find WP, so I'm just here to
>play humbug. Not to suggest that you shouldn't go ahead and try, but
>after having used WordPerfect since the mid-80s, I was very disappointed
>in the Linux version (as of about 4 years ago). There are two main
>reasons I can remember:
>
> * The look and feel of the GUI seemed like--if you'll pardon the
>   simile--a 98-pound weakling on cocaine. Buttons were too small,
>   mouse interaction was hypersensitive, and so on. It was just really
>   unpleasant to work with compared to other GUIs of the same vintage
>   (e.g. ApplixWare or StarOffice).
>
> * The macro language was crippled in some really absurd way--I don't
>   recall exactly, but it may have been that you couldn't write
>   functions that would return values; at any rate, it was something
>   basic and important like that. This was of concern to me because
>   I had written a substantial macro package for HTML editing, and it
>   relied heavily on the capability that was missing under Linux. 
>
>I no longer care very much about office suites, so it's all water under
>the bridge to me, but I thought you might want to be prepared for the
>shock.
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