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I converted to Linux Mint last year, and I'm still constantly amazed at how quickly OpenOffice starts up in Linux. Honestly, I accepted that as 'the cost of free' and moved on, because my version of MS-Office was 4-5 years old at the time so OpenOffice gave me lots more features and it was free. Once started, the applications seemed to run quickly enough, so I could just leave Writer or Calc open when I thought I might need to use them again soon (or use the 'OpenOffice Quickstarter' or whatever the hell it was called that loads all the components into memory and keeps them there, but of course that made Windows restarts take longer and took up memory I had better uses for). Nothing like the '5 minutes' cited, but 30-40 seconds is just a ridiculously slow startup time for a word processor on then-modern hardware. When I ran it on Windows XP, it was a dog to start up. I converted from Office 2000 during a reinstall some years back because OpenOffice was a lot smaller at the time. I've been using OpenOffice at home for quite a few years. Heck, I myself just left a job a couple months ago because I couldn't stand the corporate culture and work environment I was in, not because the work was uninteresting. That Java guy that quit a couple months ago mainly cited their corporate culture as his reason for leaving, and perhaps that's why these 33 guys left too. I wonder how much of this is simply from their horrible corporate culture.

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However, it seems that they're so greedy and shortsighted that they simply can't figure out how to use their newfound assets to battle MS and improve their own revenue. Strangely enough, Oracle has never been a big friend of MS either, and much more of an enemy (their database competes with SQL Server), and I've heard Larry Ellison has a lot of animosity towards MS. MS and Google are always at odds too, so Google would be happy to help push MS off its throne.

This would mean lots of new business for distro vendors like Red Hat, Novell, and Canonical. Without MS Office being a de facto standard, many corporate customers could switch their employees to Linux desktops with OO/LO and save a fortune. Remember, MS is the enemy to many companies, and anything they can do to unseat MS from its de facto monopoly status on the desktop will be good for them.

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A free office suite is strategically important to many players in the industry, including Google with its piles of cash. This is happening on my associates Inspiron 1525N as well as we both installed at the same time.Maybe, but not necessarily. It's a workaround, but not one I would like to continuously use.īy the way.

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I noticed that when I click menu-quit and don't click on shutdown or restart I get a message saying 'this computer will shut down in 60 seconds' If I wait the 60 seconds, it shuts down! I made a forced shutdown launcher using sudo shutdown -h now, but it opens a terminal and asks for a password each time. If, I ctrl-alt-backspace to log out, log back in and do a menu-quit-shutdown it works perfectly until I do anything else, open a folder, open a program etc. Everything seemed to be working fine until I tried to shut down.

did not specifly separate home partition.

Disable quickstarter openoffice linux mint