On Saturday 03 September 2022 11:39:18 dep wrote: > said Marvin Jones via tde-users: > | On Sat, 3 Sep 2022, dep wrote: > | >said dep: > | >| Frankly, I liked Star Office! > | > > | >And truth be known, ApplixWare was non-awful. > | > | I still have a working copy of WordStar 6.0 on my linux workstation. > > I have the CDs, etc., for WordPerfect/Linux, which never didn't suck. OTOH, > I have installed on this very machine Word 6/DOS and Textra/DOS. (There is > a non-stunt reason: occasionally I happen upon old files written in those, > and I need to export 'em to RTF to make 'em readable. Though both of them > were excellent word crunchers. Wish there were a decent Linux text-based > word processor. And no, EMACS does not fit the bill. EMACS was developed > so basement dwellers could write love notes to the girlfriends they would > never have. Today's incels think they're something new. Ah. but I > digress . . .) > -- > dep I don't recall that WordPerfect was so terrible; but then, I wasn't running Linux back then. I believe that was on a Commodore Amiga 64, and also on an old Mac Classic II (with 80 mb hard drive!). But also, I was just using it as a fancy typewriter, basic writing and editing, made easier by tools like cut and copy-paste, etc. My brief stint with M$ Windows got me acquainted with Word, and that's when I learned that nowadays we can "buy" something (like a word processing program) but not really "own" it, not like owning an actual book, but that I had in fact purchased a five-year license to use that software. That, and other similar experiences, led me to Linux. Nowadays I do much more layout, to create print-ready pdfs; the idea being to be able to turn my manuscript(s) directly into a book, or at least to provide a sample of how I would like it to look. I could never do that kind of thing, I imagine, with WordStar and those old programs, but I do miss the simplicity. And if they were somehow brought more up-to-date with modern word processors like LibreOffice, that sounds like a nice dream, but I doubt that we'll see anything like it. I think reforming OpenOffice and/or LibreOffice are probably more realistic and achievable; or at least we can hope for another fork from one of them. Bill ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
