"Therefore, your claim is wrong, and my claim is right: it is feasible in the real world to move away from MS Office, it is simply not feasible for everybody." The absolutisit claim about the real world was not mine it was FulgOre's, my point is that those of us who work for organistions like this are not a small specialised subset, there are millions of us locked in to M$ by institutional policies because these tend to be big institutions. For nearly a decade I used Linux at home (back in the days when StarOffice was first ported to Linux), although there were always some problems I could manage, but my current university forced me to change over because of those templates (a change I was happier to make as it did not require me to use Windows now that I had switched to OSX). The problem with these debates is that it tends to be those who do not need more than TextEdit berating those of us who are locked in by our employers.
You wrote: "Don't confuse your special situation and preferences with the reality at large." Take your own advice, if you ever work for an organisation that insists on using complex word templates you will sadly discover that only M$ Office will fail to corrupt the files. Think Free cost me hours of work on this account and OOO was no better. Of course if your needs are simple you can stick with pico.
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"Therefore, your claim is wrong, and my claim is right: it is feasible in the real world to move away from MS Office, it is simply not feasible for everybody." The absolutisit claim about the real world was not mine it was FulgOre's, my point is that those of us who work for organistions like this are not a small specialised subset, there are millions of us locked in to M$ by institutional policies because these tend to be big institutions. For nearly a decade I used Linux at home (back in the days when StarOffice was first ported to Linux), although there were always some problems I could manage, but my current university forced me to change over because of those templates (a change I was happier to make as it did not require me to use Windows now that I had switched to OSX). The problem with these debates is that it tends to be those who do not need more than TextEdit berating those of us who are locked in by our employers.
You wrote: "Don't confuse your special situation and preferences with the reality at large." Take your own advice, if you ever work for an organisation that insists on using complex word templates you will sadly discover that only M$ Office will fail to corrupt the files. Think Free cost me hours of work on this account and OOO was no better. Of course if your needs are simple you can stick with pico.