From: Chuck Yerkes (chuck+obsd2004.snew.com)
Date: Thu Aug 19 2004 - 20:02:37 CDT

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Quoting Adam (suckmy-balls.com):
> 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.

You're all sentenced to STFU and use a damn SPARC 2 with fvwm (quicker
than Motif) and Mosiac. Oh, and connect to the net through a modem on
the internal serial ports - 38,400 interrupts per second.

I'll still offer that MS Word peaked at 3.01 for the Mac.

Give me a decent cost Framemaker for X and I'll be on it in a second.
Far more than a word processor, but Word became a decent word
processor that then tried to do everything else and became a hazard
to usability and to security (does my word processing program REALLY
need to be able to send mail? Or execute "programs" that are in
the data stream? Even emacs won't do that last one.) But adobe
is on a windows only suicide course.

Oh, and Wordperfect for Linux ran fine on my FreeBSD box.

I will suggest that 95% of the users who "need Word" don't. They
"need" an application that can read files created with Word.

Plenty of people do fine with Mozilla's composer.

Give me something that lets me select fonts and basic markup (bold,
color, italics, etc), saves in DocBook or other XML and I'd be
delighted. In the meantime, ed and 'roff are enough ;)

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