will it still make me want to pluck out my own eyes and choke myself with my optic nerves trying to get Impress to do what I want it to?
3.1, at least, seems about on par with MS Office '95 in terms of getting it to do what you want without it doing something totally different and non-intuitive (although it can technically do all the stuff that I've ever used more recent versions of MS Office for). Random resizings and movings, extreme difficulty in moving slides from one place to another, weird scrolling bugs, font weirdness...
Faith's XP install was getting crapped to the point of near uselessness, so we put Ubuntu on her laptop a few weeks ago rather than trying to do a fresh XP. It's mostly been smooth except for extreme frustration with OOo Impress, so I went to the basement and hunted down our Office 2003 disk and put Wine and that on her computer (which to Wine's credit, went perfectly smoothly, even with the web authentication).
My biggest frustration with OOo has been with Calc, trying to export graphs in a reasonable way.
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Usable for speed, maybe, but...
Date: 2010-02-14 06:28 pm (UTC)3.1, at least, seems about on par with MS Office '95 in terms of getting it to do what you want without it doing something totally different and non-intuitive (although it can technically do all the stuff that I've ever used more recent versions of MS Office for). Random resizings and movings, extreme difficulty in moving slides from one place to another, weird scrolling bugs, font weirdness...
Faith's XP install was getting crapped to the point of near uselessness, so we put Ubuntu on her laptop a few weeks ago rather than trying to do a fresh XP. It's mostly been smooth except for extreme frustration with OOo Impress, so I went to the basement and hunted down our Office 2003 disk and put Wine and that on her computer (which to Wine's credit, went perfectly smoothly, even with the web authentication).
My biggest frustration with OOo has been with Calc, trying to export graphs in a reasonable way.
-Sage