basic - continued

[Christopher Chan]

On Thursday, February 04, 2010 10:43 AM, q0k wrote:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_features_removed_in_Windows_7
>
> Microsoft has no future...

Nothing to do with this list. Please refrain from making assertions of 
this sort.

>
> This is why I started using Open Office Org recently. The first
> difference I saw was that it is more object-oriented. Not "File - page
> setup", but "Format - Page", near "Format - Character" and "Format -
> Paragraph". In MS Word, there even isn't any clear difference between
> the latter two. Even in the "Styles" window, there is clear
> object-orientation in Open Office: the categories are Paragraph,
> Character, Frame, Page, List styles. ---Open Office Org also has a
> comfortable formula editor, compared to MS Word - though it's
> important part is TeX code, it's nice to see what you mean.

Some people think that OpenOffice's ui is dreadful. YMMW.

>
> This is what I felt when I switched from MS Word to Open Office Org. I
> want to hear alike reactions from you. What did you find different in
> Ubuntu / Windows when you had been using one of them for a long while
> and then saw another one?

"When in Rome, do what the Romans do"

I do not see any particular benefit from asking subjective questions. 
What works for another, may not work for you. But learning to work with 
whatever in front of you will most probably get you through anything.