Linux help

[ds dude]

Linux is pretty good, My dad is helping me out with it and as far as I know it isn't that hard right?

[FliesLikeABrick]

Linux is pretty good, My dad is helping me out with it and as far as I know it isn't that hard right?

give it time and keep your patience.  My girlfriend just started using linux last week and she already loves it

[Krillious]

I had to go back to windows because my mum needs IE for internet banking
and I don't really see the benefits of having linux, apart from being virus free :s
and also because of the crazy permissions whenever I tried to copy paste from documents it would crash openoffice :s
So in terms of performance linux was worse for me since I kept losing my document (ok I saved but i still couldn't do anything without copy-pasting it into the other app)
owell

[FliesLikeABrick]

The copy and paste thing is a bug that I encountered not too long ago.  That has nothing to do with permissions, it is simply a bug in OO.org.  It only happens with some programs, I think I've only found it to happen when pasting into gaim.  Some time soon I'm going to report the bug to the Ubuntu developers so that it can be looked in to.

[FliesLikeABrick]

Learning how to use linux is definitely not something that should be done on a shared/family computer unless you learn how to set up a dual boot.

[jettlarue]

You can emulate IE with wine. Open openoffice with sudo in front of it.

[FliesLikeABrick]

You can emulate IE with wine. Open openoffice with sudo in front of it.

Do not run openoffice with sudo, that is not the cause of this problem and it will cause many other problems in the future because it will then cause everything it does and every file it writes to be owned by root.  This is not the solution.

It is simply a bug in openoffice that will probably be fixed soon.

[Frenchie]

Yeah that openoffice bug has been known for a while, yet I haven't run into it. -yay
Openoffice is good and all, but it is getting much too heavy on system resources and has this annoying bug. Abiword FTW

[FliesLikeABrick]

Yeah that openoffice bug has been known for a while, yet I haven't run into it. -yay
Openoffice is good and all, but it is getting much too heavy on system resources and has this annoying bug. Abiword FTW

heavy on resources when used in windows or linux?

[Frenchie]

Haven't tried it on windows but on Linux it does. Abiword on the other hand is real quick

[FliesLikeABrick]

Haven't tried it on windows but on Linux it does. Abiword on the other hand is real quick

OO.org is really bad in windows, not so bad in linux.  The thing is that when you load it, it loads a backend for all OO.org apps.  The first instance seems to be really resource-whorish, but if you have more than one document open then there is a very very small difference in resource usage between the first and second ones.

[Chakra]

Linux is pretty good, My dad is helping me out with it and as far as I know it isn't that hard right?

give it time and keep your patience.  My girlfriend just started using linux last week and she already loves it

You... monster!.... i bet thats the only reason you even date her, you cad.