From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Aug 3 13:19:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from hatrack.unc.edu.ar (unknown [170.210.248.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CA4F37B403 for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 13:19:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from meschoyez@ubp.edu.ar) Received: from lcd.efn.uncor.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by hatrack.unc.edu.ar (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f73KIqZ21347 for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 17:18:52 -0300 Received: from localhost (meschoyez@localhost) by lcd.efn.uncor.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA07782 for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 17:48:32 -0300 X-Authentication-Warning: lcd.efn.uncor.edu: meschoyez owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 17:48:32 -0300 (ART) From: Maximiliano Eschoyez X-Sender: meschoyez@lcd.efn.uncor.edu To: Newbies Subject: Re: wordprocessing & GUI choice In-Reply-To: <01080312084306.34840@darkside.lab.sd73.bc.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 -> > 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. :) Yes, you can simulate differential equations in real time with a 486 box but you can use it for MS Orifice text processing. What's wrong? What I'm missing? I can't understand why MS soft is huge and sloooow ;-) I don't hate GUI applications but for wordprocessing I moved to LaTeX2e. I prefer to type text under a console en then produce the PostScript version. It's incredible how fast you can format a text in excellent quality without a lot of processing power. Regards, M@X To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message