Rob Beard wrote: > Sean Miller wrote: > >> I concur... Openoffice is bloatware of the highest order. >> >> If I could be bothered to get an older version of Office working on >> wine I would - but I don't use office suites enough to do so. >> >> It's a shame, really, that Sun decided to go down the bloated route, >> because the early versions of Openoffice were really quite pleasant to >> use; I dread to click on a ".doc" attachment in an e-mail because I >> know the machine will whirr and click for ages before I actually get >> to see it. >> >> Sean >> >> >> > I'd have to disagree on this one. I've just opened a spreadsheet (one > of my invoices) in OpenOffice. I'm running my notebook in low power > mode (1GHz) to save battery and it took 5 seconds from a cold start. > I'd hardly say that is ages. There are tweaks that you can do to > OpenOffice to speed it up such as altering the memory usage [1]. > > Now compare that to Office 2007 on one of my clients notebooks running > Vista, it takes a good 30 or so seconds to start up. > > Not to mention, when did this become an OpenOffice bashing Mac loving > mailing list? > > I have got a Mac myself (albeit older iMac G3) and I have used Macs for > many years (going back to the old 68k Macs on System 6) but I find > sometimes doing things on a Mac can be just as annoying as doing stuff > on Windows (or in some cases as doing things on Linux). I guess really > it's what you're used to. For instance I'm used to a lot of keyboard > shortcuts and generally the shortcuts are the same on Windows and Ubuntu > (for most applications), now going to a Mac I find that rather than > using CTRL I have to use the Option key. Not a big thing really but I > do find it annoying sometimes. I dare say it can be annoying for a Mac > user to go to a Windows or Linux box and find that some things aren't > Mac like. > > With regards too William's comment about OpenOffice not being a native > app. As far as I'm aware OpenOffice 3.1 IS a native app for OS X on > Intel CPUs, and there is also NeoOffice (which IIRC is a native build of > OpenOffice on both OS X Intel and OS X PPC). > > With regards to MS Office 2008 being prettier than OpenOffice, remember > this, the cheapest version of Office 2008 is the Home & Student version > which is about £70 (doing a quick google check), and how much is > OpenOffice? - FREE! > > There is nothing stopping anyone picking up the code for OpenOffice and > contributing to make it look better and work better and it's not as if > you get it shoved down your throat like you do with Office 2007 on a new > machine (I've lost count of the amount of Windows PCs I've seen with > Office 2007 trial preinstalled which can only be used about 20 times > before it disables itself and turns into a bloated Office viewer). > > Don't get me started on the install sizes [2] (about 1.7GB for a full > install of Office 2007 and about 400MB for OpenOffice.org) > > Now I'll be the first to admit that OpenOffice isn't perfect but it is > enough for most people and works pretty well (apart from a couple of > niggly bugs, but you can report bugs and track them online) and compared > to the cost of Office 2007, you won't see me switching in a hurry. > > I'll reply to the original question in another e-mail. > > Rob > > [1] > http://www.zolved.com/synapse/view_content/28209/How_to_make_OpenOffice_run_faster_in_Ubuntu > [2] > http://www.oooninja.com/2008/05/openofficeorg-microsoft-office-moores.html > > > I havent had any problem with OO specially in Ubuntu, it seems to work much better. There is a no frills version of OO somewhere, it is really good too. You have to delete OO from your system to install it. I havent seen it for a while, so I cant remember what the url is, but it is out there.
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