Wine is not ready for prime time former windows users. Office 2003 can be installed, but daily use of the application continues to face multiple error or simply dead space. Linux may be free for your pocketbook but not your time.
Please file individual bug reports for the problems you face, if they do not already exist. I should also note that CrossOver (proprietary software based on Wine; see www.codeweavers.com) runs Office fairly well. Vincent Povirk
> Wine is not ready for prime time former windows users. Office 2003 can be > installed, but daily use of the application continues to face multiple > error or simply dead space.Wine runs hundreds of programs perfectly and thousands of linux users (many of them being former Windows users) are happy with it. Office 2003 is good, but easily replaceable (OpenOffice, KOffice, Google Docs, whatever). Moreover, it works under Wine well enough to do some simple tasks from time to time: converting documents bloated with formatting, reviewing documents before sending them etc - these cover 1% of Office functionality that is really unique very good. For daily use there are native office applications.> Linux may be free for your pocketbook but not your time.Posting so pointless yet so arrogant things may be free for you, but it's bad for your karma. If you have experienced problems - fill bugreports and help make Wine better. If you want to start a flame - do it somewhere else, please. -- Sorry, if I insulted someone by this post. Best regards, Danila Sentiabov aka dAnIK SeNT
dAnIK SeNT wrote:> > > Linux may be free for your pocketbook but not your time. > > > Posting so pointless yet so arrogant things may be free for you, but it's bad > for your karma.IMO, the writer has a point. Learning to use Linux does require an investment of time and intelligence. I found the return to be well worth the investment, but people who lack sufficient quantities of the requisite capital may be better off staying with Windows.
2008/11/15 winlinnewbie <wineforum-user at winehq.org>:> Wine is not ready for prime time former windows users. Office 2003 can be installed, but daily use of the application continues to face multiple error or simply dead space. Linux may be free for your pocketbook but not your time. >Which is yet another reason to use and promote Open Office. Thank you winlinnewbie. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il ?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-? ?-?-?-?-?-?-?
Dotan Cohen wrote:> > Does learning Windows not require an investment of time and intelligence? >Learning anything new requires an investment of time and intelligence. Staying with what is familiar does not. For people who are unable and/or unwilling to put forth the effort, the latter may well be the best choice.
On 16/11/08 02:09, winlinnewbie wrote: ...> multiple error or simply dead space. Linux may be free for your > pocketbook but not your time.FWIW The post seems to display a dismal understanding of the use of "free" in free software. The writer is likely to be remain hopelessly disappointed in the offerings of any "free" software so long as they continue to believe that this "free" has anything to do with their pocket or diary. As someone once said: "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance." So, dip into your pocket, mark out some pages in your diary and invest! Morgan. PS. For the education of "winlinnewbie" see here: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html And note the "donate" button. -- Getting errors: "There are problems with the signature" (or similar)? Update your system by installing certificates from CAcert Inc, see here: http://wiki.cacert.org/wiki/BrowserClients?#head-259758ec5ba51c5205cfb179cf60e0b54d9e378b Or, if Internet Explorer is your default browser, simply click this link: http://www.cacert.org/index.php?id=17 Morgan Read NEW ZEALAND <mailto:mstuffATreadDOTorgDOTnz> fedora + freedom; fact || fiction? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Overview get freed-ora! http://www.fsfla.org/svnwiki/selibre/linux-libre/freed-ora