That’s even 1% as good
October 28, 2006I’ll be short and to the point.
OpenOffice.org is a steaming pile of shit. It is so utterly, utterly, utterly evil, I’d rather eat my own hair instead of having to rely on this buggy piece of crap software. Anyone saying OpenOffice.org is anywhere even near Microsoft Office in whatever measure, has simply never used OpenOffice.org for longer than 7 seconds (the time it takes for Writer (2.0.4) to load). It crashes. It hangs. It churns. It moans. It has a settings panel designed by a seven year old starving Ethiopian kid high on crack, acid, and glue. It is slow. It is unresponsive. It sucks at .doc importing (not really their fault, but still).
I’d give up Compiz/Beryl. I’d give up automount. I’d give up apt.
If I could just have an office suite on Linux that’s even 1% as good as MS Office 2003 (let alone 2007).
Not at all short and by no means to the point.
I wonder if you have enjoyed any technical (mathematical/logical) education in your life. Your blog entry is nothing but a rant, an unsubstantiated one, and goofy as geese to boot.
No use to learn you percentage points and what they stay for. Sad, plain sad.
You are not even able to spell the russian Putin (1:1 transcript into latin letters) correctly. *PLONK*
Go back to school, kid.
Yours
YBK
Comment by Yagotta B. Kidding — October 29, 2006 @ 10:44 am
Broaden your world. In Dutch, we often spell Putin as Poetin.
I wonder if you have enjoyed any technical (mathematical/logical) education in your life.
Probably more than you because I can use html tags and you apparently cannot.
Your blog entry is nothing but a rant
Wow you figured that out all by yourself? Of course it’s a rant.
Comment by Administrator — October 29, 2006 @ 10:52 am
Hey kid, you look like you need some rest. You look very desperate and deprived from good things in life. Blog rants [specially stupid ones] are a good way out of despair. But you could pick another target. OpenOffice.org never went bad on me, and believe me, I use it for more than 7 seconds, almost 4 years now… And it, among other stuff, allowed me to recovere Word and Excel files that could not be opened with their original Word and Excel Apps because they were so fucking corrupt. And guess what? OO.org opened them without a hicup. So in that way, at least, oo.org is so MUCH BETTER than MSOffice. I could go on and on with other examples but let me tell you this: try using it for more than 7 seconds if your mind has a greater attention span…
Oh and… This kind of blog rants look really stupid. And makes you look like a whining kid, no matter what your real age is…
Comment by solaris — October 29, 2006 @ 12:09 pm
Great OOo works for you.
I think it sucks ass, and I am free to say as I damn well please. If you don’t like it, don’t read it.
Comment by Administrator — October 29, 2006 @ 12:46 pm
Just to add another perspective, I really like OOo, and I use it frequently.
I thnk OS Office is fanastic, but it does plenty of stupid shit to, like insistenting to autoformat EVERYTHING incorrectly.
I use OOo about as much as I use MSO, and I like them both very much.
And by the way, OOo may be bad as .doc (and it’s not bad, it’s actually very good overall), but MSO’s import of OpenDocument is FAR worse - in the sense that it doesn’t work AT ALL, because it doesn’t exist.
Comment by Adam Scheinberg — October 29, 2006 @ 1:11 pm
To get a bit more specific: since I write things in various different languages, I require easy switching between spellcheck for Dutch, English-GB, and German (occasionally). While it is difficult in both programs, MS Office does it better.
People complain about the paperclip, yet that stupid lightbulb in OOo is much harder to turn off (you have to go into menus, where with MS Office you just close the paperclip and it won’t come back).
Outlook 2003 is the best email client currently available. A big pluspoint for MS Office, no doubt.
And Adam, nobody uses .odt (no offense) at least where I’m from; I get everything, also from university and fellow students, in either .pdf (30%) or .doc (70%). So, to be honest, I don’t care about .odt because it is irrelevant to me.
Comment by Administrator — October 29, 2006 @ 1:20 pm