KOffice vs. OpenOffice

[Derek Broughton]

Valter Mura wrote:

> Il lunedì 29 settembre 2008 14:12:53 Derek Broughton ha scritto:
> 
> Oh, yes, you're right. But explain me which is the reason why "in my
> country" (I don't know in yours), when the average customer cannot choose
> between an open source OS and a propietary one. If you go in a shop, the
> 100% (except for MAC systems) of the systems are Windows...

Then demand Linux.  100% seems awfully high - back when I used to by my
systems from a friend who built PCs in his basement, I could have had Linux
if I wanted (in fact, I think I _did_ get my first linux CD from him). 
Unfortunately, he's now 2000km away :-)  It shouldn't be too difficult to
find places like his, though.

>> >> not sure about the version supplied by ubuntu, but the windows version
>> >> does. it starts blazing fast since it's always preloaded, and even
>> >> when not, switching application is fast.
>> >
>> > Yes, if you run "ooffice" OOo opens without starting a doc. In this way
>> > OOo is faster...
>>
>> What a joke!  OO takes _minutes_ to open most docs I get off the net.
> 
> What do you mean? Docs stored in the Internet? Perhaps your connection is
> slow, I use OpenOffice.org with no problems and without these kind of
> delays...

No, actually I was thinking of spreadsheets on my own laptop, coming from a
server I'm testing.  I just tried to open a 93 byte .csv file with OO, and
it took 95 seconds just to get to the point of prompting me for a
login/password (which it shouldn't be doing, anyway).
-- 
derek