openoffice vs Microsoft Office
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I would fully agree with that.
I like the thought of free software and free os which linux based projects have done for us.
However I do feel it will be hard to make it my main os purely because some of the apps. I have no problem with openoffice however I do use programs like photoshop and I don’t think gimp will be a adequate replacement.
Hopefully one day it will be done.
ubuntu is trying to hard to be their own o/s that they dont try to make it easy for new users to get the hand of it the worse thing i find about it is the way you install apps is a pain i want easy and fast install like windows and mac if not i dont see me using ubuntu as main o.s and it is limited softwares like you said
Sounds like you have not discovered the app for installing apps in Ubuntu. Installing software that is compiled for Ubuntu/Debian I think is WAY easier in Ubuntu than installing any app windows. Try the liveCD, an you will see what I mean. Installing apps through wine and/or compiling apps to install them however can be a real pain…
it dont get much easier to install apps in windows just click run install next next and done lol not hard you ubuntu you gotta go and do some crazy stuff to install apps on it but i am waiting for ubuntu 9.10 so i can test it waiting for it in the mail
You don’t get it. There is an app that comes pre installed, that lets you search in thousands of apps. choose the one you like an click install, it downloads, installs the app and all dependencies and do all the configurations for you. When it’s done you just press ok, and your done! Though I agree you have to “do some crazy stuff to install ” certain apps
i know what you are taking about but some apps i need or want they dont have on that list so i have to download them and install the apps i want and are hard to install that it is pointless to try i try to learn ubuntu and make it my main o.s but is to much for me right now
He’s right it is good but most company’s use ms office
fake lockergnome.
you can use wine to make programs compatible on linux
Installing apps it easier than Windows, you simply click apps, search for a new one based on key word or type, then install after entering your superuser password. No money, no hassle no registration
What apps do you need, I bet there is a better free version out there.
windows is easy run next next ok done no terminal codes
@ROBDOMINICANKING Actually, there is install, acknowledge warnings from windows / firewall / antivirus about changes being made to your machine, then say where you want it installed, then tick or untick the inevitable ‘free’ toolbar that you can add to your explorer, then there is about 3 ‘nexts’, then reboot your machine, then you have a virus.
Most applications on Ubuntu don’t need commands entered on the text gui, but some do. A lot less than there are viruses for windows.
wrong just cause people download stuff that have virus dont mean every download you get is a virus i used windows and i mostly never get a virus i rather have windows telling me and making sure i want to put somthing in my pc then getting lunix that stuff in un safe hookers can hack linux whit ease people are still talking about how windows have virus but a virus is only a pis of code that makes your computer do somthing like a app one day linux whit have them so would mac
hookers i mean hackers typo
Linux and OpenOffice are better than Microsoft in many ways, it’s just that more people are used to Microsoft because it’s so standard in industry, education, in retail computers, and the market.
OpenOffice looks a lot like MS Office 2003, and still doesn’t have the docx or pptx save formats. I like the MS Office layout better but OO makes it easier for making Bibliographies and saving as an encrypted document.
I use both MS Office and Open Office, best of both worlds.
Open Office wins!
@ROBDOMINICANKING in linux mint 8 … open package manager ,, search for GIMP amsn skype place ticks next to each … click ok click apply .. they are installed. and can be updated regularly. with your system updates… THERE is a better and more efficient package manager for linux that lets you install as many programns as you want all together with a click of an apply..!!! WHAT century are you living in?
u.s.a
When I get rich, I will donate my money to Openoffice, I owe them because that stupid Microsoft Office word 2007 keep asking me for my ID number and I already gave it!
@Program61Lamza i agree open office is the best and sorry ass microsoft should be ashamed of themselves for ripping the public off like they do its also a shame that alot of business dont use openoffice but my business does and i saw some auto motive car dealers use open office as well its a great unique program
one for work, one for youtube, and one for porn lol
openoffice is pretty good but its just not as polished or as good as ms office i was just looking at the latest version of openoffice in 2010 and its not as good as ms office 2003 pity
i like open office but i like the graphics of office 2007
When you get rich i bet you will forget that openoffice exists.