I am advocating just the opposite:
Time to learn to work with open software on an open OS.
What is the point of bringing closed source software to an open OS
unnecessarily?
You describe yourself good alternatieves to deal with that situation.
Yet, you want yet another alternative? What for?
Why do people move to Linux in the first place?
Because they cannot afford Windows, but MS Office they can?
I can hear the masses screaming: "Give us Linux! But only if it runs MS
Office."
Klaus
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On 04/01/2020 04.31, andreas wrote:
Thank you for the reply Victor. I get your point of freedom of
computing choices. And I know some of European friends whom afford
such lavishness in their countries. In my country, by being using
linux itself is a deviation/astray from society, let alone using LO
for interoperability. Only my stubbornes keep me sane for this past 12
years. For uninteractive documents I need to made, of course LO is
totally suffice, sometimes saving to ps before exporting to pdf if
needed so. But sometimes we have to deal with uncompromised document
format (mostly from workplace/govt) e.g. locked, macro'ed excel file
and such. I usually use WPS Office or MSO online to get around this
problem. So, yeah, in my case, a native wrapper is a nice addition for
the system even though its not mandatory needed. And by doing so, I do
believe it will raise xubuntu popularity and ease new people to
migrate from windows ecosystem.
Regards,
Andreas
On 04/01/20 03.28, Victor Forberger wrote:
On 1/2/20 9:57 PM, andreas wrote:
ah,my bad. Here is the link,
https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/manjaro-ms-office-online.html.
basically it saves users some clicks and containing MS Office Online
inside desktop native app so we don't need to open web browser to
access
it.
On 02/01/20 18.58, Bjoern Franke wrote:
Hi,
Am 02.01.20 um 04:10 schrieb andreas:
Hello there. I just read the article here
<cid:[email protected]> about MS Office Online native
wrapper on some of linux distributions. Is there any possibility for
Xubuntu developers to add this to priority list as Xubuntu future
addition feature? I think this can be a plus factor for people to
switch
to linux.
you linked to "about:blank", so nobody can see what the wrapper can
do.
I am not in favor of such an addition for Xubuntu.
Linux, for good or ill, has been about variety and choice. What I like
about switching to Linux is that it forces changes in how I did things
previously.
And, I think LibreOffice is an excellent and worthy replacement for
MS Word.
I disagree with those who want to replicate the start menu from Windows
or the Dock from MacOS as the entire focus of a distribution (such as
elementary OS seeks to replicate the Mac experience).
For instance, Xubuntu gives me the options to create a single panel that
mirrors a MacOS dock (a single column of apps and notifications that I
use most often) but which also includes the ability to have every window
with its own icon and also a good start menu for housing all installed
apps (the whisker menu) as well as various launchers for grouping apps
by tasks.
In this way, I get what I like from the dock and the start menu in a way
that best meets my own needs for as much window real estate as possible.
See my setup page for various pics of this layout:
https://linuxatty.wordpress.com/thesetup/
take care,
Victor
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