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OpenOffice.org: Nice office suite
by cane
OpenOffice is a very handy tool for my needs. Most of the time I use the Writer and the Calc components.
Maybe something is still counterintuitive or insufficiently autometed, and the rendering is slightly slow, but the core is steady.
One thing I'm dissatisfied with is that there are no official x86-64 builds. This is especially frustrating with x86-64 Linux distros.
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Thunderbird: Dinosaurs are back in town...
by cane
Thunderbird is a big-cumbersome leviathan that will suck tons of memory just to make you read some ASCII mail and news...
It has few bugs relatively to RSS feeds management and subscription; and it is by far less tidily designed than its Firefox companion.
However, it has some good points, such as: concentrating mail/news/feeds in one program and simple management of multiple accounts.
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VLC media player: Good, but needs improvement
by cane
This is a nice A/V-player. I use it exclusively for video files, and it works just fine.
It has, nonetheless, some serious limitations. For example: it does not support Real* stuff which makes those kind of streams problematic, and it has a really cumbersome interface when in full-screen mode.
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Ubuntu: User friendly Linux distribution
by cane
Laudable effort, but a Linux-based desktop is still a chimera.
Of course the distro does its best, but it has to fight against heavy opponents: hardware and software manufacturers, and a relatively wild and not standardized distro universe.
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