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| From | Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.advocacy |
| Subject | Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe |
| Date | 2016-10-10 09:49 -0400 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <ntg67r$dmk$3@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2016-10-10 9:31 AM, 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. > > 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. > > 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. On Linux, LO just feels like it might have been pre-loaded at bootup. Except that I have no reason to believe that. It might just be that the code is optimized better and that its code is simply a lot cleaner than what gets ported to Windows and OS X. Either way, it runs like a charm. - -- Silver Slimer Islam is a disease Gab.AI: @silverslimer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJX+5xOAAoJEIwFfgf/rr+ujw0H/i4fbqXnx5NCVwX/ffJ5GS6R pDfc5LoynYXlDJ1FxNEnNhMBo3bXnNWEVJrl+aA3kdmVLkcVy2/lhKaKVa0zeFPr J+6U1dXAWkudgbiDKsatwE/3YWh6xUmGlqr1wviihSkyrGNkz+n07l3hgH3PRhlr FPeC4ve5iQBNllPYV9fyaPgP6D8ONPxsUKWCltGO/xODpaOgTja8qBohe9EYr7MM Pi+F0PNx/RTqPzh7hli9J356ci89eFEQ4HSdfYFUA0tbfncU1nBzgRGAARcOkzz8 K9SissQl2rTEHay7MymEoTBsJiIYqlrHmdi++afWIuzYeOlHeh5hgUvs5Pb/g84= =I2KR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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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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