It's about time...

Posted Aug 12, 2005 23:28 UTC (Fri) by obi (guest, #5784)
In reply to: It's about time... by JoeBuck
Parent article: Our bloat problem

Well, unlike OpenOffice Abiword and Gnumeric feel very light. Opening an Excel file in Gnumeric has _never_ failed for me (in my personal experience, 100% compatible - maybe I haven't used difficult documents enough), and on my 800mhz machine startup is nearly instant. Abiword is a bit less compatible with Word than I'd like it to be, but it's definitely usable, produces very nice output in XHTML, is kept simple - nice!

(BTW Inkscape/GIMP start up in a fraction of the time needed for their commercial counterparts - which might have a bit more features, but I seriously doubt a lot of people use them)

Just to mention that it's not all bad.