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:
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> 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.
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> 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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