The knock on Open Office is that it’s slow and bloated. If you look at my personal choice for browsers, you’ll notice that I like small, no-fuss programs. Still, it does its job and I prefer this than plunking down $$$ for MS Office. There are other small and fast word processing apps but I found they couldn’t render simple .doc files properly and then I still had to search for Excel and Powerpoint replacements. I just settled for the OO suite and had done with it.
BTW, I found the GIMP interface really hard to use even though I have decent Photoshop skills. Would you recommend it for beginners? What was your learning curve? I almost crossed it off my list as I found Paint.NET way more intuitive.
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