Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LinuxQuestions.org's Office Suite of the Year: LibreOffice!

Out of interest Italo, why would you say the Wine option is not
comparable to a native binary?

The Wine people seem to want to change that perception, and although I
share it, I can't quite say why, other than it a) "feels" wrong (which
doesn't really have any technical basis), and b) might be slower, but
here the Wine people seem to be suggesting that this is either not the
case, or not noticeably the case. Do you have any evidence to suggest
it might be the case, or do you have other reasons to consider it not
comparable?

While some might feel that Wine doesn't count, as you can "just run any
old windows program that way" and it's "not linux", for many Wine
represents a way to get the best of both worlds, both the advantages of
linux and the programs that they either are used to or can't find
alternatives on linux for. When it comes to the question of which
office suite people on linux use, I feel it is a valid option, even if
not one I would recommend. Especially as this is a poll of what people
are actually using, not what people consider the "most linux".




On Fri, 06 Feb 2015 11:07:49 +0100
Italo Vignoli <italo@libreoffice.org> wrote:

> On 06/02/15 10:34, Tom Davies wrote:
>
> > Perhaps.  It might be good to suggest it to the organisers for next
> > year's poll.  Certainly Skype was included, so why not?  Unlike with
> > Skype i suspect that the majority vote would still go to LibreOffice
> > anyway.  Our community is stronger and pulls together better.
>
> Skype is available for Linux, Microsoft Office is not (and I would not
> consider the Wine option as comparable to a native Linux version).


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