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

Hi :)
Yes it does feel badly wrong and kinda makes my skin crawl.  Also i am
fairly sure that various parts of MS Office wont work properly - for
example Sharepoint, One Note, Outlook, Access and other things are
quite often troublesome even on Windows and some block such things as
having 2 different versions of MS Office on one machine.

However i do still think it would be good to see MS Office included in
the polls next year.  I must admit i am completely confident in MS
Office getting a humiliating defeat on Linux.  That in itself would be
nice to see. :)

Wine Is Not an Emulator and doesn't create an extra layer between the
programs and the bare-metal of the machine.  So things on Wine often
run just as fast and sometimes even faster than they would run on
Windows.  Wouldn't it be hilarious if Linux is better at running MS
Office than Windows is!  It certainly happens that way with some games
and things apparently.

Also if MS Office can be run with any degree of success in Windows
then it opens another way for people to migrate to Linux and removes
one of the biggest obstacles much earlier in the process.  Of course
people will later find that OpenOffice is better and LibreOffice is
MUCH better than MS Office but they could discover that at a more
relaxed pace.

So i would like to see MS Office put forwards next year, but mostly
because i would enjoy seeing it soundly and humiliatingly defeated by
all the rest of the suites and especially by LibreOffice.
Regards from
Tom :)



On 6 February 2015 at 11:25, 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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