On Friday 13 January 2006 10:02, Jim Parkhurst wrote: > Sorry to hear that. My mom - (75yrs young) - is using OpenOffice to do > the minutes of the local "seasoned citizens" center. Once she figured > out the differences from a typewriter(!), she has been paying with it. > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/12/2006 14:10 >>> > > Just wanted to take a minute to tell you how truely horrible OpenOffice > is. > > I am running Debian Linux, not by choice, but because my office > requires it. > > I attempted to apt-get the new OpenOffice but it wanted me to updated > my kernel which isn't broken.. so no, I will not update it. > > I then downloaded OpenOffice from the website and it was a tarred up > file that contained 25+ .rpm files and not a single readme to tell me > how to install it. I have no clue what to do with these rpm files. > > This is the epitomy of why Linux will never EVER EVER be used by the > average person. I was completely fooled into thinking your software > would help bridge the gap, it only made it much worse. 25 rpm files, > what a joke.
To add to that the Treasurer of our church who is retired (and for correctness I will not guess her age) is using Ubuntu linux and OpenOffice.org / GnuCash to do our finances, and my Mom (60+ years young) is learning to use OpenOffice for general purposes. I have found there are generally three reasons people have a hard time with changing applications / Operating systems: 1. Fear of computers in general. 2. Never learned "what" they were doing (in terms of the principles) in the older app / OS only the exact steps to get x or y to happen. 3. Don't want to. Usually if I can get someone over 1 & 2 above I've got it made, and can then change the app / OS without a problem. However 3 is a pain because no matter how hard you try, or how much they are told by bosses or whatever that they have to, they will not learn it. -- See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! Christian Books On-Line http://risenbooks.com http://home.comcast.net/~dhcolesj --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
