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Sony To Package StarOffice On European PCs
Jahf writes "This News.com article talks about how Sony is adopting Sun's Star Office suite over Microsoft office in some areas. It's nice to see it being adopted, maybe this is the beginning of a trend. While Star Office is still not as optimized as it could be (read: it eats memory and can be a little slow even compared to MS Office), it has all the features most people need and then some at a much better price." Specifically, as reader Yacoubean points out (pointing to coverage at InfoWorld),"The PCs will be sold in the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Germany, Austria and Switzerland."
"Linux is 2-5 times slower (usually closer to 3) on the same machine"
Bullshit. Slower running what? All of those crossplatform apps you tested.
"I've tried KDE and Gnome, several versions, and multiple distros. Slow. Very slow"
No more than XP on that same machine. You want all the eye candy there is a price to pay. Of course you can run XFCE and other lean apps, but why bother with real facts?
"Linux was more stable than Windows 98. It's less so compared to XP in my experience."
Again Bullshit. What is less stable? Oh right why give facts when you can just make things up.
" Time to start talking up the actual benefits of Linux if you want any converts. Better stability is not one of them any more. Speed never was."
Pure trolling. K thx Bye.
The only thing your right about is Star Office on linux is slow. On windows once you enable its quick launch feature, which MS does as well, its plently quick at opening anything.
Again WTF is wrong with the mods these days? This was pure trolling.
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Well I've never seen one, not in a shop, and not in nearly 20 years of working in the industry.
Unless you count those tiny little handheld devices of the 1980s and they wern't exactly PCs...
Anyone on here use sony PC or even seen one for sale?
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