Re: [libreoffice-users] lost opportunity

2015-11-05 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
marianne-x wrote: A minor tale of woe: I have been trying for years to convince a young lady friend to break away from slavish dependence upon Micro$oft, and at least give LO, et. al,, a try. Her Curtains machine, running on Vista, finally got so clogged with untraceable trash that a complete s

Re: [libreoffice-users] lost opportunity

2015-11-05 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/5/2015 12:44 PM, Gabriele Ponzo wrote: > By the way, just for curiosity, what was the error returned by the > installer? This is my main complaint about this entire thread. Not once did anyone ask for specific details of what was meant by 'none of these would install, or give any indicatio

Re: [libreoffice-users] lost opportunity

2015-11-05 Thread Gabriele Ponzo
> > […] > > Besides, if I failed to pull off a >> simple install of LO on a virgin-system machine, > > It was not a virgin system, because OEM images are full of "suggested" softwares… > what chance would I have with Linux? > > Many more, since it installs flawless and brings LO along with the sy

Re: [libreoffice-users] lost opportunity

2015-11-05 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1 Except i do see this as a lost opportunity for LibreOffice. At least for the immediate future. On the other hand, as pointed out by Marianne, at least AOO did work and that brings her within the same eco-system. That is the main issue. The specific program/suite is much less relevant.

Re: [libreoffice-users] lost opportunity

2015-11-05 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Marianne, Le 05.11.2015 16:38, marianne-x a écrit : List Ahoy: Charles Schulz wrote: "Also, I'm curious to know what operating system you replaced her existing system with." The original was Vista, and the replacement was Vista. The easiest path, since everything was right there in a recovery p

[libreoffice-users] lost opportunity

2015-11-05 Thread marianne-x
List Ahoy: Charles Schulz wrote: "Also, I'm curious to know what operating system you replaced her existing system with." The original was Vista, and the replacement was Vista. The easiest path, since everything was right there in a recovery partition on the hard drive. "It looks like you did

Re: [libreoffice-users] lost opportunity

2015-11-05 Thread Gabriele Ponzo
Marianne, it's really strange since I use to install LO on a daily basis on M$ Windows as well, and not having any issue. I don't know if it's a mirrored files issue or if it's something on -that- computer, as it happens now and then that Windows has strange (at least) behaviors. My suggestion is

Re: [libreoffice-users] lost opportunity

2015-11-05 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Marianne, Le 05.11.2015 08:42, marianne-x a écrit : A minor tale of woe: I have been trying for years to convince a young lady friend to break away from slavish dependence upon Micro$oft, and at least give LO, et. al,, a try. Her Curtains machine, running on Vista, finally got so clogged

[libreoffice-users] lost opportunity

2015-11-04 Thread marianne-x
A minor tale of woe: I have been trying for years to convince a young lady friend to break away from slavish dependence upon Micro$oft, and at least give LO, et. al,, a try. Her Curtains machine, running on Vista, finally got so clogged with untraceable trash that a complete system reload se