View Poll Results: What Are Your Thoughts Concerning The New OpenOffice 2.0 Release?

**chopin1810** · 10-26-2005

I've been waiting for this release ever since I discovered OpenOffice 1.0...

Anyway, I'm just wondering how major the improvements are after 1.0. I was not very impressed with 1.0, as it took an extremely long time to load and it's set of features was a bit underwhelming. However, I was very forgiving as all software development teams are simply getting to know what to expect in the first official release: that's just the way it always happens. So are there any comments on the 2.0 release as of right now? I'm really excited to hear them.
(Now, I know that there is already a thread covering OpenOffice 2.0 in the Linux Applications forum, but I just wanted to give the topic more coverage in the coffee lounge and collect the data into a poll.)

**a12ctic** · 10-26-2005

i dont really care bout my word suite as long as it works

**Hiko** · 10-26-2005

I noticed it starts up a lot quicker. I us write and calc a lot and the startup speed was always sort of a bummer. But now, Kablammo! It's up.
Edward

**carlosponti** · 10-26-2005

i am wanting to try it at home just havent had time yet. however the whole reason i couldnt wait till it came out is because of the inclusion of a small database like access. i use that sometimes for different things.

**scientica** · 10-26-2005

It felt faster than 1.1.5 at least, I'm used to having to wait a few seconds for it to fireup on this amd64, but, it was a pleasant surprise that it loaded quicker (I read something somewhere about OOo2 emerged with '-java' beeing slow, but I didn't notice that...)
Also, it seems to have gotten a minor face lift

**genesus** · 10-26-2005

I recently put it on my wife's machine...its just sort of...ehhh, who cares, I so no real difference with all the other wysiwygs out there.

**scientica** · 10-26-2005

well, I'd say OOo is better than most WYSIWYGs out there, especially some, but yeah, when it comes to source editing emacs and/or vim is better (note the diplomatic anti-emacs-vs-vi :P)

**borromini** · 10-26-2005

With ^^ OOo is not designed for messing with scripts and stuff.

**genesus** · 10-26-2005

Originally Posted by scientica

when it comes to source editing emacs and/or vim is better (note the diplomatic anti-emacs-vs-vi :P)

well, I'd agree with you about vim

; vim even produces much more polished documents if you run them through a typesetting program like latex

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