Linux not ready for the desktop? Give me a break! (NewsForge) [LWN.net]

Linux not ready for the desktop? Give me a break! (NewsForge)

Posted Apr 14, 2003 10:13 UTC (Mon) by Wol (guest, #4433)
In reply to: Linux not ready for the desktop? Give me a break! (NewsForge) by gdt
Parent article: Linux not ready for the desktop? Give me a break! (NewsForge)

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And then there's questions of the quality of software to do even moderately serious desktop tasks. Let's try to write a memo. OpenOffice has no templates and the default paragraph settings suck. Oh well, let's set those and finish our memo. Do a spell check? Not with the default dictionary!
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And Windows has decent software? Oh, well, there's always WordPerfect. Wait - that runs on linux!

Gimme a break - about the only MS software that I personally use at home is Windows itself (have to - my family would scream at me...), and of course rather more at work where it's what the sysadmins (at the behest of the PHBs) have put on my puter. Oh well, at least I have the ability to install PerfectOffice and Open Office too, even if I don't really use them - but I don't really use Word, either :-)

Cheers,
Wol

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