Comments about Linux/Ubuntu from a former MS-programmer

[Lee Revell]

On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 23:49 +1000, Sasha Tsykin wrote:
> > What keeps me from using Ubuntu on the desktop (other than a play toy)
> > is not the lack of Flash, MP3 or WMV playback, but the fact that
> > OpenOffice.org is as slow as molasses in January (or July if you're at
> > the bottom of the world ;-), that Nautilus doesn't play nicely with
> > the network, that there are numerous user interface flaws and that
> > apps don't play nice with each other.
> > 
> openoffice is not so slow as to affect most people (all my various 
> relatives like it) and very few people need a NFS at home. This is most 
> definitely not what is preventing home use of Ubuntu for most users. 

I had the same complaint about OO 1.x and found 2.x to be much better.

Lee