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janrinok
on Sunday April 06 2014, @08:46PM
from the but-not-the-year-of-the-Linux-desktop dept.
from the but-not-the-year-of-the-Linux-desktop dept.
A recent poll by The Inquirer asked, "Which operating system will you use after Windows XP support ends on 8 April?"
Among respondents, 33 percent said they will move to Windows 7, 17 percent will stick with XP, 13 percent will switch to Linux, 11 percent will get Windows 8, and 5 percent said OS X.
So most will switch to Windows 7, but many would rather stay with Win XP without support than switch to Linux.
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Poll: More Will Switch to Linux Than to Win8
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Excellent day for putting Slinkies on an escalator.
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Monday April 07 2014, @02:45PM
AFAIK LibreOffice doesn't have ribbon menus
IMO that's one of its strong points; lack of having to deal with MS Office any more is one of the nice things about being retired. I'm using Open Office to write my books as L.O. won't do full justification.
I love KDE and Linux but some OS software can be maddening. GIMP's interface is a mess, and I tried to turn a text log file into a table. I finally gave up in frustration; O.O. would only open it in Write, its spreadsheet won't import a text file and its database requires Java, which I refuse to install on my machines.
I'm happy with O.O. Write, but does anyone know of a good open source spreadsheet or database?
And they lived happily ever after.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday April 07 2014, @03:13PM
GIMP is the poster child for bad interface design. If there's a more horrid interface out there, I'd be interested to hear about it. "Funny" enough, there actually used to be a single-window plugin for it that they dropped. Did they finally compile that option into the mainstream release yet?
My first thought is to wangle up a bash script to make the log into a CSV and then import that...but I'm pretty sure I just heard "normal" computer users everywhere scream out in agony at bash-caused melty eyeballs. Barring bash, I'd think you could do a find-and-replace to CSVatize it.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 1) by GmanTerry on Monday April 07 2014, @05:14PM
Does Office still have those super annoying paper clip and dog animations? They were so annoying.
Since when is "public safety" the root password to the Constitution?
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Monday April 07 2014, @05:54PM
No, that went away ten years or more ago. They have much more subtle ways of infuriating you now.
And they lived happily ever after.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 12 2014, @09:54PM
does anyone know of a good open source spreadsheetr l:Linux [google.com]
Bookmark this link as a boilerplate for future needs:
search?q=site:alternativeto.net+intitle:Excel+inu
Resulting page [alternativeto.net]
or database?+ intitle:Access+inurl:Linux [google.com]
search?q=site:alternativeto.net+intitle:Microsoft
I'm shocked that as a Linux user you haven't encountered pointers to that site before.
[LibreOffice's and OpenOffice's] database requires Java
Keep an eye on LibreOffice. They're working like Hell to get rid of that dependency.
LibreOffice Calc also recently got a new engine.
-- gewg_