Re: [libreoffice-users] lost opportunity

2015-11-05 Thread Gabriele Ponzo
Marianne, it's really strange since I use to install LO on a daily basis on M$ Windows as well, and not having any issue. I don't know if it's a mirrored files issue or if it's something on -that- computer, as it happens now and then that Windows has strange (at least) behaviors. My suggestion

Re: [libreoffice-users] lost opportunity

2015-11-05 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Marianne, Le 05.11.2015 08:42, marianne-x a écrit : A minor tale of woe: I have been trying for years to convince a young lady friend to break away from slavish dependence upon Micro$oft, and at least give LO, et. al,, a try. Her Curtains machine, running on Vista, finally got so

Re: [libreoffice-users] lost opportunity

2015-11-05 Thread Gabriele Ponzo
> > […] > > Besides, if I failed to pull off a >> simple install of LO on a virgin-system machine, > > It was not a virgin system, because OEM images are full of "suggested" softwares… > what chance would I have with Linux? > > Many more, since it installs flawless and brings LO along with the

Re: [libreoffice-users] lost opportunity

2015-11-05 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Marianne, Le 05.11.2015 16:38, marianne-x a écrit : List Ahoy: Charles Schulz wrote: "Also, I'm curious to know what operating system you replaced her existing system with." The original was Vista, and the replacement was Vista. The easiest path, since everything was right there in a recovery

Re: [libreoffice-users] lost opportunity

2015-11-05 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/5/2015 12:44 PM, Gabriele Ponzo wrote: > By the way, just for curiosity, what was the error returned by the > installer? This is my main complaint about this entire thread. Not once did anyone ask for specific details of what was meant by 'none of these would install, or

Re: [libreoffice-users] lost opportunity

2015-11-05 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
marianne-x wrote: A minor tale of woe: I have been trying for years to convince a young lady friend to break away from slavish dependence upon Micro$oft, and at least give LO, et. al,, a try. Her Curtains machine, running on Vista, finally got so clogged with untraceable trash that a complete

[libreoffice-users] lost opportunity

2015-11-05 Thread marianne-x
List Ahoy: Charles Schulz wrote: "Also, I'm curious to know what operating system you replaced her existing system with." The original was Vista, and the replacement was Vista. The easiest path, since everything was right there in a recovery partition on the hard drive. "It looks like you

[libreoffice-users] lost opportunity

2015-11-04 Thread marianne-x
A minor tale of woe: I have been trying for years to convince a young lady friend to break away from slavish dependence upon Micro$oft, and at least give LO, et. al,, a try. Her Curtains machine, running on Vista, finally got so clogged with untraceable trash that a complete system reload