![]() Download Ubuntu, burn it to a CD or copy to a USB stick and boot up. And I was particularly impressed by the fact that my new, fast, Linux box is a 12 year old desktop PC rescued from the attic that had struggled to run Windows for years. I was a major sceptic till I actually tried Linux. The only way Microsoft is going from here is down. Office peaked with 2003, and Windows peaked with Win7 (but XP was pretty good). Why not go the whole way and start using Linux? Moving to Linux is probably no harder than moving to Windows 8 and a lot of the software you use on Windows is probably available on Linux. Going back to my Atari ST days, I’ve long been leery of using lots of embedded macros, so have never relied on any of them for anything really important (noting like swimming against the tide.) Setting your own default paths is also easy. Both, however, let you save out in a goodly variety of formats. Having been a long-time collector of text editors onward, I’ll have to give Kingsoft and Softmaker a can surely get confusing, all the various formats and default configs of OO or LO, to name two. So far for anything more involved it turns out to be a combination of the various elements of the LO suite and using a bit of Google Docs. The funny thing to me is that since I first found it years ago, for most of my basic word mangling chores I use either a text editor or Abiword if I need more I bring the stuff into LO and go from there. So from late ’09 or so, it’s been Ubuntu and Open Office I later switched (again, but it was fairly painless) to Libre Office. This was also during the time I was seriously thinking of moving from Vista to a Linux distro – Ubuntu, as it turned out. While my normal needs are modest it was good to have many of the additional capabilities.ĭuring that time I tried out Open Office and eventually used it for everything, pretty much abandoning Office in place. I’ve used Microsoft Office here and there over the years and mostly liked Office 2003.
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