At 14:22 20/07/2014 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote:
Have you looked into using Linux? The sort of thing you complain of
is the reason many of us have turned to Linux.
Than you have been conned!
I like PCLinuxOS-KDE. It has a Windows-like desktop and is not a
steep learning curve. For the famous Ubuntu, you can have both
worlds--Ubuntu and KDE--if you choose Kubuntu. Most programs will
store files in reasonable places, like /home/<your
username>/Documents for OO files.
Yes, and that's a property of those programs - so it is true whatever
operating system you choose.
For some other programs you may have to watch where you store your
files, but the choice is always there, not only for OO and LO, but
for virtually any kind of file you might be using.
Again, that is a property of programs, so true for all operating
systems. (Surely you always have to "watch where you store your
files", or you'd never know where they were?)
(If you wanted to save a music file to a Documents directory, you could.)
Er, in any operating system.
And there is a good Find Files/Folders utility if you misplace
something. It doesn't force you to _open_ the file, it just shows
you where it is, in case you wanted to attach it to an email, for
instance. And it works with wild cards, so if you don't remember an
exact file name, you have a chance to find it anyway.
All that is surely true of any operating system? It's certainly so of Windows.
By all means make out a case for your favourite operating system (or
any other facility), but don't try to do it on a risible false
pretext. You'll be telling us next that Linux works on electricity
whilst Windows still requires gas!
Brian Barker
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