Open Office – The giant turd of the software world

admin — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:00:13 +0000

I have been using open office for months and months much to my dissatisfaction and at this very moment at 3am in the morning after using it for hours with the hope of being productive I am absolutely livid with it. It is by far the most frustrating piece of software I have ever used on a computer and I am now going to take my time and abuse the crap out of it.

Before I do so, let’s be fair and list some of the good things that open office has to offer so people don’t crucify me for hating an open source software:

It exports PDFs nicely

Ok so….

There is a software called Microsoft Office. It is essentially the biggest competitor for open office. Lucky for open office this thing is 500x more popular than it will ever be and so not many people have to deal with the rubbish of open office (I hate you so much). I want to concentrate on Writer Vs MS Word. Let’s compare the two shall we?

Features	OO Writer	MS Word
crashes unexpectedly during far from intense use	Y	N
automatic disabling of spell check	Y	N
Ugly fonts which burn the retina	Y	N
Useless updates	Y	N
Hangs while working	Y	N
Intuitive	N	Y

My favourite feature of Open Office writer is its ability to hang between the scrolling of new pages. It humorously makes me want to kill myself:

Open Office at its best (go die in a fire)

I have to breathe and take a moment to be serious. One great thing about open source software is its strong support from the community for issues. I decided to test out some community support:

My forum post to OO support

I am anxiously waiting to see some feedback.

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Open Office – The giant turd of the software world