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Re: I bought a Chromebook!

From RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: I bought a Chromebook!
Date 2018-07-26 20:03 +0000
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On 2018-07-26, chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> RonB wrote:
>
>> SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> wrote:
>>>
>>> Between Google Docs and LibreOffice, I would feel more comfortable with 
>>> the latter. I don't need the additional functions of LibreOffice, but I 
>>> feel more comfortable using a real program rather than a web application. 
>>> I don't want to be working on a document for three hours only to have a 
>>> web page time out and lose all of my progress (though I imagine that it 
>>> saves the data every five minutes or so).
>>
>>I'm not a big fan of Google Docs either, but my wife uses it (which means I 
>>have to use it when editing her writing) and my kids use it, and their cousins 
>>use it. Personally, I would see if I could install JOE in the terminal and 
>>that would be my text editor/word processor. I think Chromebooks can support 
>>some terminal applications now, can't they?
>>
>>And, yeah, Google Docs saves constantly. So losing something is not likely 
>>to happen (unless you were working in offline mode) and your laptop took a 
>>crap on you.
>
> I just gave Google Docs a try, and have confirmed that there is no
> problem saving your files either locally to the Chromebook, or to a
> USB drive.
>
> When ChromeOS was new, there was a lot of FUD spread-about, that
> Google would "own" your documents.
>
> A word-processing document can be downloaded and saved as docx, odt,
> rtf, pdf, txt, html, or epub.  Nice!

Zero interest in Google Docs myself (I don't even like the Interface). But 
if you like the interface and features and remember to backup your work, 
then I guess you've got what you want. Still, Google can go through your 
docs and I believe I do remember that – originally – you couldn't work offline, 
not sure about saving locally.

-- 
The more I see of Windows, the more I like Linux.

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I bought a Chromebook! chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2018-07-24 07:25 -0500
  Re: I bought a Chromebook! SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-07-24 12:26 +0000
    Re: I bought a Chromebook! chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2018-07-24 07:53 -0500
      Re: I bought a Chromebook! Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-07-24 06:26 -0700
      Re: I bought a Chromebook! -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2018-07-24 07:31 -0700
      Re: I bought a Chromebook! SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-07-24 14:58 +0000
        Re: I bought a Chromebook! RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2018-07-24 19:23 +0000
          Re: I bought a Chromebook! SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-07-24 20:08 +0000
            Re: I bought a Chromebook! RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2018-07-24 20:22 +0000
              Re: I bought a Chromebook! SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-07-25 11:53 +0000
                Re: I bought a Chromebook! Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-07-25 09:58 -0700
                Re: I bought a Chromebook! Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-07-25 10:05 -0700
                Re: I bought a Chromebook! vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2018-07-25 18:00 +0000
                Re: I bought a Chromebook! Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2018-07-25 11:10 -0700
                Re: I bought a Chromebook! Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-07-25 11:55 -0700
                Re: I bought a Chromebook! Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-07-25 12:10 -0700
                Re: I bought a Chromebook! Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-07-25 11:57 -0700
                Re: I bought a Chromebook! Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-07-25 11:33 -0700
                Re: I bought a Chromebook! Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2018-07-25 12:29 -0700
                Re: I bought a Chromebook! Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-07-25 12:45 -0700
                Re: I bought a Chromebook! chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2018-07-25 14:49 -0500
                Re: I bought a Chromebook! Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-07-25 13:01 -0700
                Re: I bought a Chromebook! Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2018-07-25 14:50 -0600
                Re: I bought a Chromebook! SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-07-25 21:06 +0000
                Re: I bought a Chromebook! GasPipe <vinnythegaspipe@motz.org> - 2018-07-25 17:23 -0400
                Re: I bought a Chromebook! SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-07-25 21:45 +0000
                Re: I bought a Chromebook! Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-07-25 14:57 -0700
                Re: I bought a Chromebook! GasPipe <vinnythegaspipe@motz.org> - 2018-07-25 18:18 -0400
                Re: I bought a Chromebook! Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-07-25 22:37 -0700
                Re: I bought a Chromebook! Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-07-25 22:53 -0700
                Re: I bought a Chromebook! SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-07-26 14:27 +0000
                Re: I bought a Chromebook! Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-07-26 07:46 -0700
                Re: I bought a Chromebook! Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-07-26 09:33 -0700
                Re: I bought a Chromebook! Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-07-25 14:54 -0700
                Re: I bought a Chromebook! Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-07-25 14:13 -0700
                Re: I bought a Chromebook! GasPipe <vinnythegaspipe@motz.org> - 2018-07-25 17:21 -0400
                Re: I bought a Chromebook! Kompyler <kompyler@toke.com> - 2018-07-25 21:17 +0000
                Re: I bought a Chromebook! Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2018-07-25 13:20 -0700
                Re: I bought a Chromebook! Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-07-25 13:27 -0700
                Re: I bought a Chromebook! Kompyler <kompyler@toke.com> - 2018-07-25 21:03 +0000
                Re: I bought a Chromebook! Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-07-25 14:51 -0700
                Re: I bought a Chromebook! Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-07-25 13:44 -0700
                Re: I bought a Chromebook! SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-07-25 20:59 +0000
                Re: I bought a Chromebook! Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-07-25 14:21 -0700
                Re: I bought a Chromebook! GasPipe <vinnythegaspipe@motz.org> - 2018-07-25 17:25 -0400
                Re: I bought a Chromebook! Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-07-25 15:02 -0700
                Re: I bought a Chromebook! Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2018-07-25 17:03 -0600
                Re: I bought a Chromebook! Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-07-25 16:42 -0700
                Re: I bought a Chromebook! SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-07-26 14:40 +0000
                Re: I bought a Chromebook! Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-07-26 09:37 -0700
                Re: I bought a Chromebook! Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-07-26 10:20 -0700
                Re: I bought a Chromebook! chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2018-07-26 06:49 -0500
                Re: I bought a Chromebook! Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-07-26 05:25 -0700
                Re: I bought a Chromebook! Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-07-26 08:17 -0700
                Re: I bought a Chromebook! Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-07-26 09:25 -0700
                Re: I bought a Chromebook! Kompyler <kompyler@toke.com> - 2018-07-25 21:16 +0000
            Re: I bought a Chromebook! Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-07-24 13:41 -0700
              Re: I bought a Chromebook! Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-07-24 14:32 -0700
                Re: I bought a Chromebook! Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-07-24 15:06 -0700
              Re: I bought a Chromebook! vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2018-07-25 00:20 +0000
          Re: I bought a Chromebook! chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2018-07-26 11:57 -0500
            Re: I bought a Chromebook! RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2018-07-26 20:03 +0000
              Re: I bought a Chromebook! Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-07-26 13:52 -0700
              Re: I bought a Chromebook! chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2018-07-27 07:17 -0500
                Re: I bought a Chromebook! fr314159@gmail.com - 2018-07-27 06:05 -0700
                Re: I bought a Chromebook! SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-07-27 13:23 +0000
                Re: I bought a Chromebook! fr314159@gmail.com - 2018-07-27 06:57 -0700
                Re: I bought a Chromebook! Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-07-27 07:29 -0700
                Re: I bought a Chromebook! SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-07-27 15:57 +0000
                Re: I bought a Chromebook! DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2018-08-06 11:58 -0400
                Re: I bought a Chromebook! chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2018-07-27 08:38 -0500
                Re: I bought a Chromebook! Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-07-27 06:42 -0700
                Re: I bought a Chromebook! Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-07-27 06:58 -0700
                Re: I bought a Chromebook! fr314159@gmail.com - 2018-07-27 07:08 -0700
                Re: I bought a Chromebook! chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2018-07-27 09:33 -0500
                Re: I bought a Chromebook! Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-07-27 08:00 -0700
            Re: I bought a Chromebook! SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-07-26 20:43 +0000
              Re: I bought a Chromebook! Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-07-26 13:59 -0700
              Re: I bought a Chromebook! Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-07-26 14:47 -0700
  Re: I bought a Chromebook! chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2018-07-24 08:16 -0500
    Re: I bought a Chromebook! SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-07-24 15:00 +0000
      Re: I bought a Chromebook! RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2018-07-24 19:24 +0000
        Re: I bought a Chromebook! chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2018-07-25 09:34 -0500
          Re: I bought a Chromebook! Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-07-25 08:01 -0700
            Re: I bought a Chromebook! Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-07-25 10:37 -0700
      Re: I bought a Chromebook! chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2018-07-25 09:30 -0500
        Re: I bought a Chromebook! Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-07-25 07:45 -0700
  Re: I bought a Chromebook! Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-07-24 06:42 -0700
  $180 is expensive for a piece of garbage. Simon bar Sinister <john.h.gohde@gmail.com> - 2018-07-24 07:42 -0700
    Re: $180 is expensive for a piece of garbage. SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-07-24 15:03 +0000
      Re: $180 is expensive for a piece of garbage. chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2018-07-24 13:58 -0500
        Re: $180 is expensive for a piece of garbage. Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-07-24 14:01 -0700
          Re: $180 is expensive for a piece of garbage. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-07-24 15:07 -0700
        Re: $180 is expensive for a piece of garbage. Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2018-07-24 17:39 -0400
          Re: $180 is expensive for a piece of garbage. chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2018-07-25 07:32 -0500
        Re: $180 is expensive for a piece of garbage. Simon bar Sinister <john.h.gohde@gmail.com> - 2018-07-25 05:09 -0700
          Re: $180 is expensive for a piece of garbage. Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-07-25 05:25 -0700
      Re: $180 is expensive for a piece of garbage. RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2018-07-24 19:18 +0000
        Re: $180 is expensive for a piece of garbage. SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-07-24 20:07 +0000
          Re: $180 is expensive for a piece of garbage. RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2018-07-24 20:20 +0000
            Re: $180 is expensive for a piece of garbage. SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-07-25 11:44 +0000
        Re: $180 is expensive for a piece of garbage. Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-07-24 13:45 -0700
  Re: I bought a Chromebook! "F. Russell" <fr@random.info> - 2018-07-24 15:58 +0000
    Re: I bought a Chromebook! chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2018-07-24 12:16 -0500
      Re: I bought a Chromebook! Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-07-24 14:16 -0700
        Re: I bought a Chromebook! Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-07-24 15:06 -0700
          Re: I bought a Chromebook! Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-07-24 15:18 -0700
          Re: I bought a Chromebook! Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-07-24 15:34 -0700
    Re: I bought a Chromebook! Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-07-24 10:36 -0700
  Re: I bought a Chromebook! RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2018-07-24 19:16 +0000

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