2015-01-06 7:25 GMT+01:00 Ivan Stephen <istep...@vaxxine.com>: > First of all - I'm no developer, but I've been using word processing and > spreadsheets for just about twenty-five years. Over that time, I've seen > some really ill-conceived software (some of which was more focused on glitz > than functionality). > > Over the last five years or so, since the demise of AppleWorks, I've tried > NeoOffice, Lotus Symphony, OpenOffice and LibreOffice. At times I've > switched just to see if there's an improvement. Other times, I've made the > change due to outright frustration. That's the case this time. After > using > LibreOffice for two years or more, I've gone back to OpenOffice. > > Why, you ask? >
No, I don't. I did the same switch. Twice… (but I still have LibreOffice installed so I can try it out now and then, when I don't have anything better to do…) > > I'm working with one fairly large spreadsheet of 126 KB (well, it isn't > really THAT large). No, not large at all. > It contains no formulas or macros, just about 24 > columns and 2500 rows, plus six more small spreadsheets. Many cells have > nothing in them. I did a direct comparison of OpenOffice and LibreOffice, > and found that the latest Mac versions vary substantially. I turned off > everything I could (such as Java runtime) in both. OpenOffice opened the > file quite a bit more slowly (3 mins., 45 secs.) compared with > LibreOffice's > 2 mins. > I have several spreadsheets way bigger than yours, with formulas, conditional formatting and macros, opening in less than a minute. With Apache OpenOffice. 3:45 sounds way too much to me. And I bought this computer in 2007… > > However, I realized that I don't care that much that it's slow to open in > OpenOffice, as the file gets used all day. But I find that OpenOffice > seems > MUCH more stable, I find that too. > and doesn't tie up my RAM nearly as much as LibreOffice > for the same file. I didn't test that, but I believe you. > (That's really why I dropped LibreOffice.) Could it be > related to the constantly increasing size of LibreOffice? > > I also realized that I don't really care that OpenOffice doesn't yet save > files as docx or xlsx. I just want stability from the software. > I didn't know it could, but I don't use those formats anyway, and if someone sends me such a file I just delete it. Problem solved. > > Of course, OpenOffice is also lagging behind Microsoft Office. With what? I didn't use MS Office since at least 2007 (that's the year I stopped using Windows), but I certainly don't miss any features in either LibreOffice or Apache OpenOffice. > I'm also > aware that Munich and Freiburg recently returned to Microsoft after having > made a real commitment to open-source software. > > As I'm planning to move into the publishing field, I may yet need to use > Microsoft Office. But as long as possible, I will use OpenOffice, and > perhaps it will catch up to Microsoft, especially now that IBM is throwing > its support to Apache OO. > > Also - it may seem like a little thing, but I reported a bug some time > ago. > It was related to your "find" field not allowing anything to be copied into > it. LibreOffice didn't seem able to fix it, and OpenOffice's find field > works much better - and that's another reason to return to it. > I also reported bugs a while ago, but in the end I just found too many so I went back to my life. In fact there are a couple of bugs in Apache OpenOffice as well, but I just don't have time to report them anymore, and most of them are just looks anyway. And I never got along very well with this mailing list; I always forget to ”reply to all”, which I don't need to do with most of the mailing lists I'm subscribed to, including those for Apache OpenOffice… Kind regards Johnny Rosenberg ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Returning-to-OpenOffice-tp4135219.html > Sent from the Discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
