Re: Who SERIOUSLY uses Linux for SERIOUS WORK, seriously?

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In reply to David Brown who posted:

> On 15/06/11 22:52, Hadron wrote:
>> David Brown<david@westcontrol.removethisbit.com>  writes:
>>
>>> On 14/06/2011 19:20, RayLopez99 wrote:
>>>> On Jun 14, 4:09 pm, David Brown<da...@westcontrol.removethisbit.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> On 14/06/2011 14:02, Chris wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Am Tue, 14 Jun 2011 03:58:21 -0700 schrieb RayLopez99:
>>>>>
>>>>>>> Serious Work is a defined term.
>>>>>
>>>>>> But I still don't understand the point of this thread.
>>>>>> Clearly the definition of "Serious Work" being so different from "serious
>>>>>> work" is not a good way to do this at all.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ray's point was to define his phrase "SERIOUS WORK" to be something that
>>>>> Linux users don't do, and then place a troll epost asking if any Linux
>>>>> users do "SERIOUS WORK" by that definition.  It's a circular argument -
>>>>> he is asking if anyone uses particular named Windows-specific software
>>>>> on their Linux machines even though there are better open-source
>>>>> alternatives.
>>>>
>>>> Actually that's not a bad synopsis, aside from the name calling.
>>>>
>>>> So I ask you, David Brown, in your 'learned opinion' whether you think
>>>> Wine would be a good place to do Serious Work in Linux?
>>>>
>>>>   From the horror stories involving Wine I doubt it, but I've never used
>>>> it.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I use OpenOffice (or now LibreOffice) for my "serious work" (your definition) on
>>> both Windows and Linux.  It works perfectly (much better than MS Office on
>>> Windows that a few others at the office have), and doesn't need Wine.
>>>
>>> If you are wondering about running MS Office under Wine, then I don't know.  I
>>> don't have a copy of MS Office, and haven't had it on one of my computers since
>>> the days of Word 2.0 on WfW 3.11.
>>
>> Yet you feel qualified to comment? Strange. And by your own admission
>> know nothing about MSO?
>
> No, by my own admission I don't have MS Office installed, and I have 
> rarely used it.  But I know about it - I have to support the few people 
> at the office who use it.  And since we use mostly OpenOffice or 
> LibreOffice at my work, I /am/ qualified to compare them (at least in 
> the scope of how we use the tools).
>
>>
>> While nice for "free" OO is a complete dog compared to MSO. Its why almost
>> no one uses it. 

I guess all these are not using OOo then. The wiki must be lying according 
to the M$ wintroll!

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Major_OpenOffice.org_Deployments


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