[mdlug] Linux push an economic phenomenon?

[Dan Pritts]

In my experience even the previous version was decent when it came to cross-compatibility with windows.

There were certainly features it didn't provide, and it was sluggish and bloated, but formatting was reasonable when things were modified on one, and sent back to the other, etc etc.  That was always where I ran into problems with openoffice back in my desktop linux days.  

sluggish and bloated seems to apply to openoffice too, actually. 

Anyway, I ended up using "win4lin" so i could run office under windows 98 (!) in some sort of emulation mode the software provided.  It wasn't a full VM system like vmware, but it was lighter-weight.

It made me feel dirty.

On Jan 24, 2011, at 9:10 AM, Wojtak, Greg wrote:

> 
>> Oh yeah, one other thing I didn't mention.  Living in the real world, as
>> opposed to living in the world we'd all prefer, I have to deal with M$
>> attachments, and OpenOffice just doesn't cut it when it comes to sending
>> documents back and forth and trying to maintain formatting.  This does
>> not please me, and it's not Linux's fault, but it's another reason not to
>> use linux on the desktop.
> 
> Office: Mac 2011?  Microsoft actually seems to have tried to make Office
> work on the Mac this time around...
> 
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