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| From | Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.advocacy |
| Subject | Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe |
| Date | 2016-10-10 15:41 +0200 |
| Organization | DNLA GmbH |
| Message-ID | <ntg5pm$cra$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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Marek Novotny wrote: > On 2016-10-10, Silver Slimer <> wrote: >> >> On 2016-10-09 7:38 PM, Jim Polaski wrote: >>> On 2016-10-09, Silver Slimer <> wrote: >>>> >>>> On 2016-10-09 10:17 AM, DFS wrote: >>>>> On 10/8/2016 11:09 AM, Adlbifhr Mjduhgfks wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I could easily use GNU/Linux for EVERYTHING and suffer no >>>>>> loss of any kind. >>>>> >>>>> Except a huge loss of dignity. >>>> >>>> Ha! >>>> >>>>>> But there is always the issue of exchanging information (i.e. >>>>>> documents) with other people. The majority of these >>>>>> "others" use Microjunk formats, and needless to say GNU/Linux >>>>>> cannot handle these formats. Traditionally, Microjunk >>>>>> formats were always a weird amalgamation of binary streams >>>>>> that are closely related tho their equally weird Component >>>>>> Object Model. The newer Microjunk OOXML format is more >>>>>> amenable to GNU/Linux but it is far from being a truly open >>>>>> standard. >>>>>> >>>>>> Richard Stallman outlined a strategy to entice people into >>>>>> using more open formats for data exchange but, as one can >>>>>> easily foresee, the strategy got nowhere: >>>>>> >>>>>> https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.en.html >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Every time I see that obese, disgusting, repulsive sasquatch >>>>> telling people what to do, I wanna send money directly to >>>>> Microsoft. >>>> >>>> It's not anyone's fault that Word is the most respected word >>>> processor out there. If Corel and LibreOffice had made a decent >>>> alternative to Word, we'd be using their formats instead of >>>> Microsoft's. Clearly, the "advocates" would love to go around >>>> claiming that Microsoft only got to its position because of >>>> bribing and such but it's plain to see what Word is just better >>>> than the competition. Quality won, not bribes. >>>> >>>>>> Microjunk has for some reason decided to allow its Office >>>>>> suite to actually read and write ODF file formats, which are >>>>>> TRULY open formats and which are natively produced by >>>>>> GNU/Linux LibreOffice. >>>>> >>>>> Truly open, and truly slow. >>>> >>>> LibreOffice actually runs very well in Linux. It's only in >>>> Windows and OS X that it runs like molasses and I can't explain >>>> why. >>>> >>>> >>>> - -- Silver Slimer Islam is a disease Gab.AI: @silverslimer >>> >>> LibreOffice runs better under Linux on my system. It runs ok under >>> Windows as well but there is a slight speed increase in opening >>> large documents under Linux for sure. I find gimp also runs better >>> under Linux than under Windows 10. >> >> I don't believe that I ever tried LibreOffice on this i7 but it was >> MUCH slower than WordPerfect and Word on my previous i3-M330 laptop. >> In Linux though, LibreOffice loads instantaneously in addition to >> looking a whole lot better than it did in Windows the last time I used >> it. I honestly don't think any Linux user would miss Microsoft Office >> if LibreOffice were installed for them unless there are specific >> functions that they _know_ aren't available in the open-source suite. All two of those? Or is it just one now? > I use Libre Office on Windows, macOS and Linux. And yeah, it feels like > Windows and macOS are after-thoughts and Linux is the focus. Especially > true on the Mac. The Mac version doesn't even allow me to break out the > icons for the various apps like Write and Calc. Instead it is just one > app icon and I have choose which app I want from a menu. On Linux that's > not true at all. Welcome to the wonderful world of OSX "bundles". Where all the needed resources of an application are packed into a Pseudo- directory. I had to go to some idiotic length just to bypass this major flaw in OSX It is ridiculous how OSX hinders some things which are considered total normal on linux (and even windows) > Other apps are this way as well. I forget the name of it but there was > some app in which I had to add GTK to Windows and the app was written in > Python I think. You can run it on any platform but again on Linux it > felt like a first-class app. Elsewhere, less so. >
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A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Adlbifhr Mjduhgfks <am@random.us> - 2016-10-08 15:09 +0000
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Se7en <se7en@firemail.cc> - 2016-10-08 19:33 +0000
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Adlbifhr Mjduhgfks <am@random.us> - 2016-10-08 21:47 +0000
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-10-09 10:17 -0400
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-09 15:25 +0000
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-09 12:56 -0400
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-10-09 13:41 -0400
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-10 09:11 -0400
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-10-10 09:27 -0400
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-10 09:47 -0400
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-10-10 10:29 -0400
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-10 13:13 -0400
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-10-10 13:21 -0400
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-10 16:40 -0400
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-10-10 17:02 -0400
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-10 17:55 -0400
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-09 23:43 +0000
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-10 09:16 -0400
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-10-10 09:34 -0400
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-10 08:41 -0500
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe GreyCloud <Cumulus@mist.com> - 2016-10-10 10:54 -0600
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-10 23:52 +0000
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe GreyCloud <Cumulus@mist.com> - 2016-10-10 22:00 -0600
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-11 12:49 +0000
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-10 09:50 -0400
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-10-10 10:44 -0400
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-10 13:15 -0400
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-11-01 10:03 -0700
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe fr314159@gmail.com - 2016-10-10 10:31 -0700
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Se7en <se7en@firemail.cc> - 2016-10-10 06:39 +0000
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-10-10 09:53 -0400
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-10 15:19 +0000
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-10-10 13:03 -0400
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-10 23:55 +0000
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-11 09:10 -0400
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-11 13:41 +0000
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-10 13:19 -0400
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-09 12:51 -0400
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Adlbifhr Mjduhgfks <am@random.us> - 2016-10-09 17:10 +0000
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-09 23:38 +0000
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-10 09:15 -0400
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-10-10 09:31 -0400
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2016-10-10 15:41 +0200
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-10-10 10:36 -0400
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2016-10-10 18:16 +0200
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-11-01 10:03 -0700
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-10-10 09:42 -0400
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-10 09:49 -0400
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe fr314159@gmail.com - 2016-10-10 07:10 -0700
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-10 09:20 -0500
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Adlbifhr Mjduhgfks <am@random.us> - 2016-10-09 17:03 +0000
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-10-10 09:18 -0400
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-10 09:45 -0400
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe fr314159@gmail.com - 2016-10-10 07:18 -0700
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-10 09:38 -0500
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2016-10-10 18:05 +0200
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-10 15:16 +0000
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Alexander Suvorov <axr.suvorov@yandex.ru> - 2016-10-10 14:08 +0300
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