Things I already hate about Kubuntu (new user)(Thanks for rep; ies)

[Bryann Melvin]

ubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com wrote:

>Message: 9
>Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 06:17:06 +0000 (UTC)
>From: Terry North <terrencenorth at yahoo.com.au>
>Subject: Re: Things I already hate about Kubuntu (new user)(Thanks for
>	replies)
>To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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>Bryann Melvin <brymelvin <at> melvinart.com> writes:
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>Thanks for your comments and those of Jan Moren.  I intend to persevere but, the
>way things are set up, getting the system to a ready state will take time and
>lots of it.  I'm no power user - just trying things out.  My other Linux system,
>so far, makes Ubuntu look very shabby.  I would have preferred more tools rather
>than OOo on the disk because, if I continue, I'll probably get the official
>version of OOo rather than use the Ubuntu version.
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One more bit of advice...go ahead and use the Ubuntu OpenOffice.org version:

The "Official "version comes in one flavor...(OO.org 2) and that is RPM. 
to use it you will have to convert it  to deb AND remove some 
nonapplicable files.

You don't want 1.1.5 as Open Document is only minimally supported.

If you DO download the "official" archive READ the SETUP Guide FIRST. 
It's a seperate Download and is not included in the Archive. When 
expanding the archive do it from the command line. Trying to extract it 
with a gui is going to probably put some things in the wrong directory. 
I KNOW it does on Fedora and SuSE. ( I've tried ALL kinds of 
permutations of installing this, I'm a community distributor ..I make 
cds of OpenOffice.org for distribution.)

The "Official" installation set  CAN be bought on cd from various 
distributors...maybe there is one in your local. I plan on adding an 
already configured for deb/ubuntu directory on my install disk...but I 
do not ship Outside of US and Mexico  ..it will be another couple of 
weeks before I have tested it on enough win and linux machines to be 
sure of quality anyway. I mainly distribute it just locally here on the 
border. (schools libraries etc.).


Bryann