Thread: UK Schools advised "Avoid Vista & Office '07 - Consider Linux & OpenOffice"

So while on the topic of Office '07, who here can tell me how to get it to change the default setting of double spacing? I've been trying to figure it out since I got it o_O

Originally Posted by Daeva

So while on the topic of Office '07, who here can tell me how to get it to change the default setting of double spacing? I've been trying to figure it out since I got it o_O

I had that same problem. Wait one second...

The microsoft office suite decided to disable itself 1 month after I bought this computer and it was probably the best thing that Vista's ever done for me.

<3 open office.

I installed Ubuntu on this laptop that I got over a year ago for school and I really like using it, except I can't get the internal wireless card to work and I also have a sound issue (it's barely audible). So, alas, I'm still using XP and Office '03, which I know better than OpenOffice anyway, so meh, whatever.

Now, on a desktop I don't see any reason in the world to not have a dual-boot Linux/Windows machine. Linux just runs so much easier/quicker/everything, so much easier. Two desktops in the house with a dual boot setup (and for the record, one dual boot laptop, 2 other laptops with XP and Vista).

Grod loves Vista because it makes everyone else mad because we all hate it and he gets a rush from it.

I'm happy with XP

Originally Posted by Seismosaur

Grod loves Vista because it makes everyone else mad because we all hate it and he gets a rush from it.

Originally Posted by ninja9578

I think Grod is Steve Balmer.

You all love to talk about me, don't you.

Hmm. Anyone actually going to talk about linux and oo?
I use both, and I have abiword on my USB stick for use at school. I'm writing a book with an oo user so I save the files as .odt

Oh, and WinXP takes about 2 minutes from to boot up and login, and finish loading apps, Ubuntu with Compiz takes about 20 seconds ^_^

OOo has a lot of java in it so it's fairly slow. I much prefer iWork to OOo, but I'd much rather use OOo than word. Remember that we are technical users though, our word processors work better, but have a steeper learning curve. With word you can just type and it works fine. The really complicated things that are impossible to use in Word don't get used very often.

I've recently started using LaTeX. It's far better than any other word processor, but has a learning curve like that of C.

You can take all the useless crap off of XP and it cuts down the boot time considerably. Even so, it's still much slower than OSX, which is slower than Linux.

So the main advantage in having Linux is booting fast?

No, that's just a perk. The main advantage is stability, no registry, low footprint, synapsis manager, no obsolete files.