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Tom's Hardware On the Current Stable of Office Apps For Linux

Posted by timothy on from the everything-is-amazing-no-one-is-happy dept.

tc6669 writes "Tom's Hardware is continuing its coverage of easy-to-install Linux applications for new users coming from Windows with the latest installment, Office Apps. This segment covers office suites, word processors, spreadsheet apps, presentation software, simple database titles, desktop publishing, project management, financial software, and more. All of these applications are available in the Ubuntu, Fedora, or openSUSE repos or as .deb or .rpm packages. All of the links to download these applications are provided — even Windows .exe and Mac OS X .dmg files when available."

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  1. The Lotus Fallacy by jedidiah · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Most people simply never needed $400 desktop productivity apps.

    The idea that everyone needed to be completely compatible with the market leader quickly
    took hold and helped strangle the industry. Documents should have no more vendor-lock
    associated with them than image files.

    Those of us that don't really need Word, nor really even like it, should not be held hostage by those that do.

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    A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
  2. Re:Not good enough if you deal with customers. by ibsteve2u · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It has been my experience that 1600 seats @free per seat will often offset a single missing cell border.

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    Orwell: "In a Time of Universal Deceit, telling the Truth is a Revolutionary Act"
  3. so which is faster? by Khashishi · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Do they even read what they write?

    "OO.o Writer is the fastest and most responsive word processor available for Linux today."

    "KWord is fast. It's probably the fastest-loading and maybe the most responsive word processor in the roundup."