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

Of course, that said, reading a bit further into the posts on the poll
seems to indicate that they specifically didn't include Wine + MSO
because they wanted only linux native options, otherwise the field was
just too big. Which is fine, but then it changes the question from
"What is the most used (or popular) office suite on linux" to "What is
the most used (or popular) native linux office suite". Both are valid
questions, but they are subtly, and importantly, different.



On Fri, 6 Feb 2015 13:25:13 +0200
Paul <paulsteyn1@afrihost.co.za> wrote:

> 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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