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posted by janrinok on Wednesday July 08 2015, @10:16PM   Printer-friendly
from the get-the-fire-extinguisher-ready... dept.

I'm wondering what Linux distros my fellow soylentils use, and why.

I myself have loved Fedora since version 7, and never cared much for Debian systems. My desktops either run Fedora or a source-built XFCE system. What distros do you use, what architectures, and why do you use them? Are there any distros you wish were still around?

 
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  • (Score: 2) by SubiculumHammer on Wednesday July 08 2015, @10:43PM

    by SubiculumHammer (5191) on Wednesday July 08 2015, @10:43PM (#206636)

    My old Win7 laptop died a hardware death, and now I am using a cheap laptop running xfce on Linux Mint. For the most part thought, I use this laptop as a terminal and vnc viewer for my work on analysis servers running CentOS or Ubuntu. However, for writing, I use MS Word in Windows 7. If Libre office could preserve .doc track changes in the same format as Word, then I could dump it, but track changes is critical in collaborations.

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  • (Score: 2) by moondrake on Thursday July 09 2015, @08:34AM

    by moondrake (2658) on Thursday July 09 2015, @08:34AM (#206873)

    Uhm, have been using libre/openoffice track changes for years with doc and docx, and nobody ever complained about about it (equations are sometimes a problem, but I usually just ignore their questions about that).

    So what is the problem you are seeing?

    • (Score: 2) by SubiculumHammer on Friday July 10 2015, @12:49AM

      by SubiculumHammer (5191) on Friday July 10 2015, @12:49AM (#207211)

      I distinctly remember several months ago opening up a document with changes which would not transfer between programs.
      I just tested it though and you are right. Tracked changes were preserved. Now I'm a bit confused.

      • (Score: 2) by moondrake on Friday July 10 2015, @07:50AM

        by moondrake (2658) on Friday July 10 2015, @07:50AM (#207324)

        I think what does not work is highlight a few words, and attach a comment to the highlighted section. Comments can only be inserted at a position with no highlighting. Not 100% sure about this though, and I think this works in the latest betas for 5.0.

  • (Score: 2) by linuxrocks123 on Thursday July 09 2015, @12:25PM

    by linuxrocks123 (2557) on Thursday July 09 2015, @12:25PM (#206936) Journal

    Office 2010 and below work in WINE, just fyi.

    • (Score: 2) by SubiculumHammer on Friday July 10 2015, @12:43AM

      by SubiculumHammer (5191) on Friday July 10 2015, @12:43AM (#207209)

      Well, they kind of work. I've been running it Wine, and sometime sits fine, and then there is a doc that just wont open or Office just crashes after a few minutes.

      • (Score: 2) by linuxrocks123 on Friday July 10 2015, @02:27AM

        by linuxrocks123 (2557) on Friday July 10 2015, @02:27AM (#207237) Journal

        Hmm. I've been running it in an old Crossover Office install from Flock the Vote. If you don't want to buy Crossover, PlayOnLinux has similar customization scripts that might help with the stability.

        • (Score: 2) by SubiculumHammer on Friday July 10 2015, @06:46PM

          by SubiculumHammer (5191) on Friday July 10 2015, @06:46PM (#207579)

          I use PlayonLinux. Again, this is just on some files, maybe files which were also saved by Word in Mac.