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I have an Ubuntu desktop and a Macbook air laptop. On the Desktop computer I have a TypeMatrix Bépo keyboard which is great for French people writing French tex
by chmike 10y ago
I have an Ubuntu desktop and a Macbook air laptop. On the Desktop computer I have a TypeMatrix Bépo keyboard which is great for French people writing French text and coding.
What I'm missing on my Ubuntu computer is Word and Excel. LibreOffice is very far from the quality of Word. So I use my Mac when I have to write word documents but the Mac interface is a pain.
I had a windows laptop but although the hardware was good it was very slooooow at start up. It needed 30minutes to be ready to be usable (reboot or wake up) and without any roaming and with virus checking disabled. That's useless.
The only serious problem in my field with Ubuntu is that many people use Word as document format and this is annoying.
- fb03 10y agoI feel your pain and sadly, the only way I could find around this issue was to use a virtual machine running Windows 7 with Office 2010. I have used Libreoffice's Writer with some degree of success. My dissertation was written in it and some of its specific features are actually more advanced than the Word counterparts, mainly: automatically numbering pictures and tables, auto-TOCs and formatting styles. Word does all that but Writer is way more flexible in this regard. What I couldn't adapt to, though, was the gap between MS Excel and Libreoffice's Calc. The difference in functionality and usability is huge :-( Just try to properly format a bunch of cells in Calc and you'll realize how cumbersome and painful it is. The virtual machine approach works nicely but then you have another box to mantain. Since mine is just for Office I leave it Internet-less and that makes for another set of adaptations (ex.: how to put and remove content to the VM, need to use CIFS/Samba for that, etc). o/