On 07/20/2014 02:34 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
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!
No, I haven't. I used Windows from almost the first days of Windows
3.0. It was quite usable, except for the BSOD. Windows 98 basically
addressed itself to that,
not altogether successfully. Then MS decided we all needed a nanny, and
made many of those previously accessible items unusable.
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.
Then why is the OP having such a problem finding them?
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?)
Like in unzipping files? When you unzip a package, rather than one file,
you never know where the rest of them went!
(If you wanted to save a music file to a Documents directory, you
could.)
Er, in any operating system.
I doubet it.
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.
So then when you go to that clear space in the start system and enter a
filename to find, how come it opens the file? Not only that, it opens
the file in what IT
thinks you should be working on it with! I won't swear that it doesn't
accept wildcards, but I don't think it does.
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
I am not one of those fanatics who have removed Windows from their
computers. There are a few things that only work on Windows--AutoCAD is
one--and a few
things that work better on Windows, altho some of them may cost quite a
bit. (I'm not convinced that Word works better than Open Office, altho
the OP is, but even
if it does, it's a pretty expensive word processor.) OTOH, I have
certainly cussed out Windows often enough! I don't need or want a nanny.
--doug
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