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

[Timothy C. Klein]

* BOF (bof at pcisys.net) wrote:
> Matt Gushee wrote:
> 
> >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). 
> > 
> >
> 
> 
> As the other poster <g>, I have to agree.
> 
> My biggest complaint was the font display was just terrible under Linux, 
> basically nullifying the WYSIWYG display. I never had any problems with 
> mouse sensitivity or button size, but the printer setup was also not up 
> to the standards I expected.
> 
> It was simply not anywhere near as polished as the Windows version, and 
> utimately I gave it up for that reason and went to Open Office.
> 

I would have to third this motion.

I used WP for Linux for about week -- and I bought the damn thing!  It
was really not very good.  Didn't integrate well, printer support was
odd, and the fonts were down right horrible on the screen.

In the end, it was not worth it.  I really, really used to like WP 5.1
for DOS.  That was a word-processor.  With WP, you could give LaTeX a
run for its money back then.  The version I used on Linux was but a pale
imitation of its former self.

A bummer, really.  I am sure that the core product is still strong.  A
few willing and able hackers could probably bring the Linux WP product
up to modern standards, and resurrect a very nice word processor.  But
instead, the IP languishes in some unknown company's portfolio, its bits
rotting away into nothingness...

A shame.
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