On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 11:54:38AM +0000, Rick Engebretson wrote: >Having read comparisons between KDE and Gnome, I'd like to include the >Star Office 5.2 desktop for consideration. It is a remarkably complete >UI. Also, you don't have a "K" or "GN" on every app. Just hide the panel >and you have a very clean, professional desktop > Star Office sucks. It's not viable at all as an alternative to M$ Products if you're in an environment with lots of windows users and need to exchange documents. We had people here try it for a long time. They ended up spending so much time reformatting documents that thier productivity decreased. Everything from bullets in slides to formula discomboulation in Excell to page break errors and tables being all out-of-whac in word. If you really need to use your office apps, you'll use M$. If you're a geek, use flat text, or PostScript, or even go so far as to fireup vmware and run MS products from that. Star Office needs to go away. It's a huge bloated useless pile of crap that takes up way to much space on harddrives. It's like a big teaser. Linux is not a desktop OS your grandma would want to use and it goes deeper than just the lack of a decent processor. -- Ben Lutgens Sistina Software Inc. MIS Geek / Gentoo Developer http://dolly-llama.org | http://www.gentoo.org/ | http://sistina.com/ Kernel panic: I have no root and I want to scream -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20010606/9575a92f/attachment.pgp