From: Adam (suckmy-balls.com)
Date: Thu Aug 19 2004 - 17:35:08 CDT

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On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 02:25:08PM -0700, rickie kerndt wrote:
> At 11:27 AM 8/19/2004, you wrote:
> >Because MS Office running under wine is way better than openoffice,
> >which is unbearably slow even on a 2GHz machine, nevermind something a
> >little older. Gnumeric and abiword are better, but aren't always able
> >to make sense of MS Office documents.
>
> Intereting as I use OpenOffice (under FreeBSD w/Gnome desktop) on a 1.7GH
> AMD desktop and a 1.4GHz Pentium M laptop. Don't have any issues with speed.
>

And? People say the same thing about mozilla too, and it doesn't mean
anything. Just because you are more patient than other people, doesn't
mean they are wrong for seeking a faster alternative. MS Office is
WAY faster than open office, that is the major reason I have seen people
using MS office under wine instead of OO.

Adam

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