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LibreOffice 5.0 announced. 4.4.3 is out for download

Hey there you guys, how are you today. I hope you are having a good day 🙂
I continue to bring the latest news about the stuff I built the site upon, one of the major points is LibreOffice.

LibreOffice released it’s minor update 4.4.3 for fresh branch on May 7th. And it brought 80 fixes according to document foundation blog. It’s immediately available for download from this link. And you are advised to update for security reasons?!

and it continues to push towards the 5.0 milestone. Expected in late July.
Back to version 5.0.0
It was first mentioned as version 4.5 is currently under testing for the purpose of “bug hunting”. You are welcome to join them and start debugging. Read all about it from here. And download V5.0 early from here.
I’m personally really excited. I think I’m going to download V5.0 today!!
How did you like this post? Please let me know in the comments below 🙂

Windows is bloatware

Hey there you guys!
How are you today? I hope you are doing good!
As I am writing this. You will see a lot of “feel” and “felt” being thrown around. It’s that much devotion I have to my writing. I haven’t really used any tools to benchmark the performance. All I used was my “feeling” and of course. Loading times, shall we?

 

In case you missed it. I like many others, dual-boot. Which means I use two operating systems on my computer. Why I do that you ask? Please refer to my dual-boot path for more.

 

Now I happen to use most of the software I have on both systems. And what I have noticed is: It runs so much better and a lot smoother on Linux than it does on Windows!!

Atom takes 18.7 seconds to load on Windows. Linux, 3 seconds!

Gimp takes 30 seconds to load on Windows, Linux 10 seconds (With many plug-ins and effects!).

LibreOffice crashes on Windows often. Very smooth on Linux!

And as I said in the dual-boot path. Windows loads slower. Takes up a lot more resources. Crashes more often. Filled with problems and prone to viruses!

How is it possible that Windows is the most popular operating system on earth?

Closed source

It’s closed sourced. How do you know what does what exactly? How much of the space is actually used to serve your needs. And what is the rest doing?

Windows is a black box. You buy it as it is. You know what it does but not how it does it. Get this. I don’t think it’s doing it very well.

Windows has matured into a heavy, recourse hungry beast. Whom it’s only purpose is to suck and drain every drop of your pocket. And keep you in need for them.

I don’t feel like the computer is dying just to keep the computer on. Or that powering up is an achievement to be celebrated with several minutes of silence and unresponsiveness. My computer is OK. But Windows expects you to update to a new computer every 10 days or so!

Android is not free

And please don’t say you are an Android person, and since Android is already Linux that means you are all for open source. Android has put more money in Microsoft’s pocket than Windows mobile. Five times that is!

More money than Skype, Windows phone and Xbox combined. And the reason is Samsung -_-

I do feel that Windows is forced and over bloated. Not with features. But with crap!

Linux is “Cancer”

Have you seen the licenses lately? They offer you basic usage rights as professional. And then put an oversized price tag on it! And call it theirs!!

They prefer you use hacked software than you using Linux! They think it’s cancer. I think Windows is the real cancer.

If I need to occupy 20 Gigabytes of my HDD and need to have a Core I3, 4GB Ram just to open my files. Then we have a serious problem here, Microsoft!!

It’s consuming. It’s useless. And it’s ugly (have you used Windows 8 before?)

You might take from this that I hate. Well I don’t. I respect all code. And think that paying for code is a healthy practice.

I’m against monopoly and taking advantage of people. And piracy is never a solution.

To be continued ..!How did you like this post? Did you find it useful? Please comment below and let me hear what you have in mind.

OpenOffice transitioning to LibreOffice

Hey there you guys

How are you today. I hope you are doing great.

Today we are going to talk about

Apache OpenOffice. It’s been a while since we spoke about it!

I’ve used it for over five years and it has been nothing but good! Then I transitioned to LibreOffice. You can see all about it in here. If you are thinking like me you are probably wondering: Is there a learning curve for me? My answer is: Not at all!

They quite similar. You won’t have a problem at all. Everything you knew and liked in Apache OpenOffice you will find in LibreOffice plus much more!

You might ask: Why are we still mentioning Apache OpenOffice?

Well for a very simple reason! It has been around for much longer than LibreOffice. And many people still use it. After all it was downloaded over 100 million times!!

If you are out there and still using Apache OpenOffice. You might want to check the new LibreOffice. It’s simply the best!

I hope you enjoyed this post! Please let me know what you think in the comments section!

Have a nice one!

LibreOffice 4.4.2.2 is out. Fixes base issue. More!

Hey there you guys!

I hope you are having a good weekend!

I just downloaded the Fresh LibreOffice 4.4.2.2, I have to say it’s looking good!
What I noticed that the install size is still the same at 213.93 MB.

With some improvements.

1.I noticed I was able to run reports on data bases after it used to crash the program on 4.4.0, I haven’t changed a thing in my settings. The boys did it <3
And yes. That’s the database from the conversion post that has mainstream attention.

2. I wasn’t able to create a web page via wizard. But the program didn’t crash. So I guess it’s an improvement, I think it will be fixed in a later update. And I’ll report about it (God willing).

So with these improvements I urge you to take a look at the great work done on LibreOffice. And view it as a serious productivity suit with plenty of potential and hidden power rather than an MS-Office clone ( Which is not!!).

Will a clone run from a browser? Does Office do that? That’s right!! LibreOffice done it again!! Check the wiki for more!

Finally. I’d like to thank the guys at @LibreOffice for re-tweeting me.
Consider donating to keep the project going. It’s an amazing movement and it can’t continue for free you know.. The download page has the donation in it. Make sure to leave something there 🙂

I hope you liked my post. Please leave a comment and let me know what you think. Have a nice one!!

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