From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Aug 3 12: 9:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from enterprise.sd73.bc.ca (unknown [207.23.161.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 852B837B406 for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 12:09:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fcash@bigfoot.com) Received: from darkside.lab.sd73.bc.ca (romulus-net.sd73.bc.ca [207.23.161.23]) by enterprise.sd73.bc.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA10650 for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 12:09:45 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Freddie Cash Reply-To: fcash@bigfoot.com To: newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wordprocessing & GUI choice Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 12:08:43 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01080312084306.34840@darkside.lab.sd73.bc.ca> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On August 3, 2001 11:38 am, you wrote: > I apologize for resending, but I forgot to change the subject and to > turn off html. (My employer picked Outlook--not me!) Sure sure, that's what they all say. :) > Like many gnewbies (I add the g cuz I am new to Open Source unices, > but not computers in general), much of what I did in the Windoze > world was using word, excel, powerpoint, etc. I am familiarizing You poor poor soul. Having to suffer with MS Office like that. :) > myself with the KDE office suite, and wondered if others who do > desktop publishing type stuff would be willing to share their > experiences and advice. I always have a lot of problems with > printers (and sound cards). Do many people use CUPS? Do they find > that they can get their desktop wordprocessing done well? I really > like KDE and chose it over Gnome in large part because of Konqueror > and Koffice. I am really not trying to start a flamewar, but curious > about what experiences/thoughts other new users have. I don't do much DTP, but I do a lot of lesson writing, note taking, and=20 time-card/expense tracking using KOffice. KDE 2.1.1 is very nice, much=20 improved over KDE1. However, I have become very fond of WordPerfect 8=20 in Windows and have recently installed the Linux version of WordPerfect=20 8 on my FreeBSD box. As nice as KOffice is, nothing beats familiarity=20 with a product, and WordPerfect is my current preference. Haven't done anything with printing yet, although we have setup all our=20 Linux desktops to print via NetWare print servers. Used straight lpd=20 for that one. I chose KDE over GNOME mainly for the sense of completeness and=20 togetherness. There were just too many places to configure things in=20 GNOME that overlapped eachother. Plus, I really did not like the=20 Nautilus file manager. I also find that KDE is quicker and lighter on=20 my litle P-II 333. :) Now, if I could just figure out why KMail=20 crashes whenever I download more than 100 messages, taking KDE with it.=20 :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message