Marco Shaw wrote:
> I'm interested in hearing from anyone that has tried StarOffice 4 on RedHat
> 5. I want to hear the good, the bad, and the ugly!
Yeah, it's free, and, yeah, it's got lots of features. But... I don't
like the WAY it works.
1. It appears to have it's own window manager internally. All task
windows open INSIDE the main SO window, like the old Win3 program
manager. That is a VERY substantial constraint on how you use the
program: for example, you can't put different components on different
screens, and you have a hard time getting multiple tasks going at
once without overlapping windows. Of course, you could let SO be your
desktop, but then why are you running Linux?
2. It is a clone of MS Office. Yes, that has some advantages, but I
don't care for lots of the design decisions MS made. I like labels on
my buttons, not pictures. I like to be able to look inside the files
the system creates, not have everything hidden from me.
Right now, I'm seriously considering spending money to get WordPerfect.
It may not have a whole suite but word processing is all I usually use
anyway. And WP seems to be a whole lot more compatible with X than SO is.
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