Slackware Users: Which Office Suite Do You Find The Most Useful (Productive)?

cwizardone · 01-14-2010, 09:26 PM

Which of the office suites do you find to be the most productive?

Note: While GNOME Office is included in this poll, it is not really an office suite, but a loose collection of related applications.

An Office Suite is defined as:
"In computing, an office suite, sometimes called an office software suite or productivity suite is a collection of programs intended to be used by knowledge workers. The components are generally distributed together, have a consistent user interface and usually can interact with each other, sometimes in ways that the operating system would not normally allow."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_suite

zhoun · 01-14-2010, 09:43 PM

EIOffice, a java based office suite,
but more faster than openoffice

GooseYArd · 01-14-2010, 09:48 PM

emacs

cwizardone · 01-14-2010, 09:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zhoun

EIOffice, a java based office suite,
but more faster than openoffice

I spent some time "googling" around the 'Net and the packages listed in the poll are the only ones I found that qualify as a "Office Suite." GNOME Office is not a real "suite" but the name is well known so it was included.

cwizardone · 01-14-2010, 10:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GooseYArd

emacs

Not an office suite.

GooseYArd · 01-14-2010, 10:03 PM

bzzzt. thank you for playing.

dc_eros · 01-14-2010, 10:23 PM

Even in the office, I don't use much of an office suite. Maybe end of month report or code specs. But I'm voting for OpenOffice

mRgOBLIN · 01-14-2010, 11:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GooseYArd

emacs

Damn! just as I was starting to like you

Oh and no I didn't vote.. I use Vim for pretty much everything but prefer to use OpenOffice when I'm forced to open someone else's document or work with spread-sheets. Saying that, I'd rather choose to download it separately than have it included with Slackware.

amiga32 · 01-15-2010, 12:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GooseYArd

emacs

Quote:

Originally Posted by cwizardone

Not an office suite.

It's a suite of something all right, though I'm not sure it belongs in the office, or anywhere else for that matter.

jk guys

Z038 · 01-15-2010, 12:51 AM

I don't use office suite components much, but when I do, Koffice does the trick for me. I have pretty simple needs. I've tried OpenOffice, but it handles like a slow lumbering piece of bloatware, IMO. I don't much care for it.

mcnalu · 01-15-2010, 01:54 AM

I've voted for open office because it's the only one which will open the plethora of MS formats that I encounter every day at work. That said, I've not used any of the others for even a hundredth of the time I've used openoffice so I can't [EDIT: forgot 't before!] comment firsthand on how good/bad they are relatively.

Personally I don't mind having to download openoffice separately from slackware - slackbuilds makes it almost trivial for me to install it.

sycamorex · 01-15-2010, 02:35 AM

Softmaker office

mlangdn · 01-15-2010, 02:40 AM

If I need something fancy, its OpenOffice. If it is just a note or simple text, I use Kate. If I'm at the CLI, its emacs all the way.

H_TeXMeX_H · 01-15-2010, 03:11 AM

Um, I don't like office suites, because only some components are actually good. Here's what I prefer:

Lyx = word processor
Gnumeric = spreadsheet

Openoffice = opening .doc .ppt, making powerpoint and using draw sometimes, but not really anything productive I would say.

gnashley · 01-15-2010, 03:19 AM

I voted for siag -just to be ornery. Blame it on the winter...