Hi :) LibreOffice is not like most programs. It has a large core program with a few tiny modules / satellites / add-ons / plug-ins / apps that kinda plug-in to that core. Removing one or a handful of those modules does very little to affect the size or complexity of LibreOffice. At least that is how i understand it to be.
There is always Abiword or Google-docs. Abiword focuses on beinga word-processor without having to integrate with other programs. It should be smaller, lighter and faster but i've not used it in the last decade or so. The only functionality missing from Abiword was that i couldn't make it default to using MS formats. Quite ironic since i now rarely use MS formats - because they are incompatible between different versions of MS Office = with new versions of MS Office struggling to open older files that use their format. As for using Linux i used to be a fairly normal "point and click" user until after i had used "gnu and linux" for about a year. In that first year i spent most of my time still using Windows with only occasional forays into Linux. Then i started using Firefox, OpenOffice and other things on Windows too - and then i found a game on Linux that wouldn't work on Windows. That was when my migration to Linux got faster and faster. So it took me a couple of years of really not pushing myself before i found i'd kinda accidentally stumbled into using Linux without working at it much. I'm not sure what migration route i'd recommend for a blind user. Perhaps using a simple virtual machine such as Virtualbox = it's not as scary as it sound! It's just a program you can install in Windows and when you double-click on it the program runs in a window which you can just close to stop the virtual-machine. Another route is to install Ubuntu inside Windows as though it was just another program. Unlike other distros (Mint, Red-hat, Open-Suse etc) the Ubuntu people make a "Wubi installer" on their installer Dvd and the Wubi can be installed on Windows. So maybe just stick an Ubuntu Dvd or Usb-stick in and see what options it gives you. Actually "Puppy Linux" does something similar but although it's good on low-spec or older systems it's much less typical of linux distros and it's not so easy to migrate to other distros That is just my own opinion but it's too the best of my limited knowledge about these things. Regards from a Tom :) On 24 February 2018 at 18:37, Robert Großkopf <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Tim, > > > > Robert The custom install as you stated seems to come up in Windows, not > > DEB based Linux install, unless you install through the repository, and > > package managers like Synaptic. > > I have never installed LibreOffice on a Windows-system. You could choose > the packages under OpenSUSE, so why shouldn't you be able to install the > packages you wish under *.deb-based Linux-systems? Our main-problem with > Base and Ubuntu is: Ubuntu doesn't install Base and doesn't install the > report-builder for default. So it seems to be able to install separate > parts of LO. > > I could only say for the packages of LO directly, not for the packages > of Ubuntu: You could choose, for example, only Writer - Calc, Impress, > Base and so on aren't installed then. > > Regards > > Robert > -- > Homepage: http://robert.familiegrosskopf.de > LibreOffice Community: http://robert.familiegrosskopf.de/map_3 > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to- > unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
