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What *can't* you do in Linux?
spencerpi:
Photoshop is a funny thing. If you tell a pro designer that you use Photoshop under Windows they laugh at you too.
Most of them are Macintosh lovers. :D
HibbeeBoy:
quote:Originally posted by M505:
Where did I say it is bad to be compatible with loooots of other Office suites ? Nowhere. Why did you bring this up ?
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I brought it up because you are perpetuating the myth that everything must revolve around M$ Office. It doesn't.
quote:Originally posted by M505:
My point was and still is : as long as MS has 90% of the desktop market and dominates the Office market it will be difficult for OpenOffice to compete. Even your claim to be compatible with other Office suites makes no sense because all the other Office suites together is still only 10% of the market.
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And as long as you and people like you buy into this BS the longer the situation remains the same.
quote:Originally posted by M505:
I'm just saying that if the competition has 90% market share they can make life very hard for OpenOffice, like I said, by starting to fiddle with their file formats is just one problem for OpenOffice. I've never used OO but I will try it when I get round to it. We have MS Office at work which I *hate*. I don't know why MS needs over 50mb of disk space for a text editor (Word). All it has to do is show the letter on screen that you type. Pretty elementary stuff if you think about it.
That said, they can do some heavy stuff within Office, embedding documents from other applications in their documents, just to name one. I seriously doubt that OpenOffice supports all those gimmicks.
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I agree with you, most of the office suite applications are full of features that we just don't have a requirement for. Hence, M$ bundles "Works" with their "OS". Excel is a hugely powerful application but most of the advanced features are left alone where I work. You're also correct in a sense that a text editor is a text editor. The only yhing that differentiates one word processor from another is the crap that comes with it. That's why Open Office is appealing, I get what I need, not what M$ thinks I need.
quote:Originally posted by M505:
A lot of people here make it look very easy ... Photoshop ? We have The Gimp, solved. MS Office ? We have OpenOffice, solved.
It's just not true : they may come close in functionality, close enough for Joe Average but expert users will laugh at them. The lack of CMYK support in Gimp is one example.
If you take a non CMYK file to a printing company they *will* laugh at you. Deal with it and don't go claiming that The Gimp = Photoshop. It just isn't so.
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Well I can't comment on those applications but I will take your word (no pun intended) for it. As the Linux platform matures, these issues will become less and less and hopefully, an even playing field will result.
I myself use Office 97 a bit at work. I also use Star Office for documents and spreadsheets too and nobody has spotted the difference when I publish them. Star Office cost me, NOWT ! So that's a good deal.
KernelPanic:
quote:Originally posted by HibbeeBoy:
Star Office cost me, NOWT ! So that's a good deal.
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[off-topic] Americans use the word 'nowt' - hmm I thought that was just a northern colloquial british term.... [/off-topic]
HibbeeBoy:
quote:Originally posted by Tux:
[off-topic] Americans use the word 'nowt' - hmm I thought that was just a northern colloquial british term.... [/off-topic]
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Read my sig, I only live in America.
As the old saying goes,
"You can take the man out of Leith... etc" javascript: x()
;) ;) ;) ;) ;)
raptor:
quote:Originally posted by Faust:
All the newer distributions are implementing schemes like Debians apt-get, and personally I think apt-get is simpler than Mac OSX method. So software installation is now covered.
Apt-get process:
Go to big menu of software
Choose software you want
Click install and all the config is done for you
Mac OSX process:
Go to big download site / store
Find software you want in invariably poorly organized menus / shelves
Download software / buy software
Unzip/extract
Drag to relevant location where you have space
(Then I guess you need to set up shortcuts too? Or do you just put it in a central location and it runs?)
I mean I don't even need to know where the binaries go because my path handles that all for me. Why are you people still using Macs??? :confused:
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apt-get == win
:D
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