On 05/02/2014 11:15 AM, Ken Springer wrote:
On 2/5/14 7:03 AM, Silver Slimer wrote:

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I only use Thunderbird because it allows me to send encrypted mail
through GnuPG. In the case of Firefox, I use it because it supports
plug-ins and isn't as insecure as Internet Explorer is. LibreOffice is
my suite of choice because I like the classic interface and believe in
open formats (not necessarily open-source). I will never be dumb enough
to tell you that any of the aforementioned products is devoid of bugs
though.

Overall, LO is pretty good. The problems occur when the features you
tend to use a lot have issues. That's what happened to me. I tried to
support LO by filing bugs. I actually thought, since it was an issue,
they would fix it. But no-o-o, it wasn't used by many (that they know
of, obviously), so they never fixed any of them. The zealots kept
telling me those issues weren't important. But they never had an answer
when I said they were important to me, and why should I use and
recommend a program that doesn't work.

I have to admit that I would be very upset with that kind of lack of
collaboration. I've financially supported LibreOffice and Firefox in the
past. If they ever decided that one of my issues was not important, they
would never see money from me again. As it is, I find both of Mozilla's
products to be memory hogs. I don't mind since I have 8 gigs of RAM on
this particular machine, but I also find that they tend to go into a
non-responsive mode from time to time. If I knew what issue caused that,
I would file a bug but expect it to be resolved.

I actually had a list of problems here I was going to file, but since
that was their attitude, I never bothered.

It makes sense. You tried to collaborate with them but they didn't
collaborate back.

After the last go around in this area, I posted I was done with LO, and
stopped reading their mailing list/newsgroup/Nabble. LO is still
installed for the occasional Word file that I get, but that's it.

I write a few .ODT documents so the suite is necessary for me.
Technically, I could work just as well with WordPad since my texts are
usually very simple but I liked knowing that the advanced features are
there if ever I need them.
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Silver Slimer
GNU/Linux is Communism