[cw-discuss] Miserable 6.0 experience...

Fri Feb 16 05:27:36 CST 2007

Hi,

1. Because if you use it in company, you need to be sure that the
document you have received from your customer really looks the same.
Consider an agreement with a lost paragraph or 2. After you think you
have all your negotiations finished you find out that the conversion
missed something important.
2. I'm often forced to use complicated documents - sereral hundred pages
with graphics and embedded objects (mainly visio). And it is not my
choice - if my customer uses MS Word - I need to use it too.
3. Have you compared memory usage and startup time? Whatever you can say
- MS Word is faster on Linux that OO.
4. I don't know if OLE works for OO in Linux. But even if it works, it
is limited to OO only.
5. I personally prefer Word over OO. It just looks nicer for me :)

Regards,

Olaf
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 10:47 +0000, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote:
> What I cannot for the life of me understand is why Linux users are
> bothering trying to use M$ Word on their Linux installations. Why not
> Open Office? The only thing I have found out to be "better" in the M$
> Office are Excel and PowerPoint.
> 
> M$ Word IS GENUINE JUNK and has been proven so by all too many. Basta.
> My experience of M$ Word in publishing has at times been disastrous.
> 
> If you are doing something really serous, you have Adobe FrameMaker
> and the old-fashioned TeX/LaTex.
> 
> With OOo you can save your work in M$ Word format and not loose a
> thing, unless you are doing some very complex job.
> 
> This, at least is my experience.
> 
> Bodvar
> 
> On 2/16/07, Sid Boyce <sboyce at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> > Jeremy White wrote:
> > > Actually, I've been educated on this; there appears to be a known
> > > issue and fix that seems to work for SuSE 10.2.
> > >
> > > So, definitely get a ticket in, and 6.1 will definitely fix this issue.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Jeremy
> > >
> > I only have Office 97 and it's OK with 10.2 and 10.3Alpha1, so I don't
> > know if it's an issue with Office 2003.
> > Regards
> > Sid.
> >
> > > Jeremy White wrote:
> > >> Hi Derek,
> > >>
> > >> 10.2 came out after we'd frozen our test platforms, so we didn't
> > >> test against it at all.
> > >>
> > >> And you're not the first person to report odd troubles like this.
> > >>
> > >> I'm not sure if we've solved this yet, or not; either way, it owuld
> > >> really help if you could submit a ticket on it.
> > >>
> > >> (Standard suggestions are to investigate your ulimits and to
> > >> make sure that AppArmor is configured to allow wine to run).
> > >>
> > >> Cheers,
> > >>
> > >> Jeremy
> > >>
> > >> Derek Fountain wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> I bought Crossover 6.0 a week or so back after a good experience with
> > >>> 3.0 Pro a long time back. Not going well...
> > >>>
> > >>> Installation was OK on my SUSE-10.2 single CPU machine. I only need Word
> > >>> and Excel from Office 2003, so I stuck that disk in and ran a customised
> > >>> install. The installation hung up three quarters of the way in. Some
> > >>> Wine process was using 100% of the CPU. I left it for 30 mins, but it
> > >>> clearly wasn't going to come back. I spent the next few minutes killing
> > >>> wine processes, and eventually rebooted to get rid of the zombies.
> > >>>
> > >>> I only need Office 2000 really, so I dug out that CD and started again,
> > >>> and this time it succeeded. But now Excel is proving unreliable. It's
> > >>> hung up in the same way twice this afternoon - some wine process taking
> > >>> 100% of the CPU and nothing happening in the application.
> > >>>
> > >>> I wiped everything in sight and went back to Crossover 3.0 Pro. It's
> > >>> only been an hour but that's been OK so far.
> > >>>
> > >>> Is this a known problem, or is anyone else seeing it? I've not been able
> > >>> to reproduce it reliably (and I need the machine for work, rather than
> > >>> as a test box, so I'm not keen to reproduce it either!)
> > >>>
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