wiki.ubuntu.com/WhyIDontUbuntu

HC Brugmans hcbrugmans at gmail.com
Sat Sep 10 12:00:39 UTC 2005


Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
> On za, 2005-09-10 at 11:25 +0200, HC Brugmans wrote:
> 
> 
>><snip>
> 
> 
> You have 2(!) comments about openoffice and decide to ditch Ubuntu as a
> whole? I call that weak and definitely not worth such a rage against
> Ubuntu.
> 
> OpenOffice.org 2 has much improved ppt support, evince will support it
> soon. OO.o2 can also print multiple slides per page easily.
> 
> So there, your problems are solved. I urge you to remove this wikipage
> as it is completely useless.
> 

I did not ditch it. I determined both OOO1 and 2 at this moment to be 
inadequate to my needs. I've filed several bugs on the issue, crashers 
on evince, openoffice1/2, and problems with my printer related to cups.
I was trying to work with ubuntu, and it failed me.

This brought me to the idea of this wiki page. I'd like to know why 
people won't use it, or why they don't offer it to their fathers, 
mothers, or spyware-riddled aunts.

I'm inviting people to share the reasons why, so we can get an overview 
of what certain issues are.

I am quite enthousiastic about Ubuntu myself, and have used it 
exclusively since januari, but at this moment, I switch to university 
labs and MS-Office if I need to get work done in a timely manner, that 
is what I'm saying.

For me to recommend Ubuntu to other students, I would need to have these 
issues fixed.
For me to recommend it to my mother, I'd need other things, which I 
haven't investigated.

I am sure I am not the only one who faces such issues.

It is *not* intended to turn into a rant, and if it turns into one, I'll 
be the first to kill it.

Hidde





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