On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 16:22, Graham Watkins wrote: > Well, why? > > In the past I've mostly used Star Office 5.2 which while it doesn't go > at the speed of light, leaves Open Office 1.1 standing. > > It's just taken me about 15 minutes to open a file, make a small > alteration and print a single page with about 3 lines of text and a box > on it. > > Oh, and I can't figure out how to change the default printer settings > and right now life's too short to try. > > It's just as well I've got Star Office because if all I had to use was > OO, I think I'd be forced to spend a lot more time in Windows. Come to > think of it, I might get faster results using Word with Wine. > > Is everyone else here having the same experience? > > How do you cope? > > I'm using it with Mandrake 9.2 and KDE 3.1. on a Pentium III for all the > difference it makes. I have no plans to upgrade the software until I get > a faster computer. > > Cheers
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