Dear Members of the "
OpenOffice" Community Forum,
At the end of the day, it all comes to a matter of choice.
Somehow, I have had the Fated Idea to buy the "
Microsoft" "
Windows"
8.1 Operating System almost Four Years Ago. It has turned out to be a Very Bad Choice, as, even after its Upgrade to the Latest Version of the "
Microsoft" "
Windows"
10 Operating System, nothing has been working out smoother as it used to work and as it should be working.
I wonder why I have not decided to choose a "
Linux" Distribution instead.
The things have been getting worse as the "
Microsoft" Corporation has decided to introduce the Stealth Idea of maintaining a "
Microsoft" Account where most of the Personal Data is stored. This way, even after Physically Deleting all of the Primary Partitions that were residing on the Internal Winchester Hard Disk Drive, the Next Clean Install has somehow retrieved some of the Settings that should have been lost otherwise.
Nobody really knows exactly what is kept out there, "
in the cloud", but - for instance - most of the Desktop Layout has been set up exactly as it was before the Clean Install, without having to manually intervene for its Diligent Setup. For instance, the Green Color of the Desktop Background has been set again without requiring any further action from the Proud User. So, I presume that everything is safely kept somewhere without my knowledge.
As I have noted before, at the
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/win ... fad1b9c68c Uniform Resource Locator I have described a Failed Saga of updating the "
Microsoft" "
Windows"
10 Operating System. I have eventually decided to disable the "
Microsoft" "
Windows" Update System, which is not an easy thing to do. I have even noticed a "
tracker" Command-Line Software Application that must have been changing some things around beyond my control.
Choosing to opt into a Paid Subscription to the "
Microsoft" "
Office" Desktop Suite and its "
Microsoft" "
OneDrive" Cloud Providing Service has been Quite a Bad Idea as well.
Attempting to synchronize only around
372 Giga-Bytes of Useful Data (I mean, come on, they are not
16 Tera-Bytes of Data) on the "
Microsoft" "
OneDrive" Cloud Providing Service has been a Never-Ending Task. I have jotted down a little bit of what was happening there at the
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/one ... e=2&auth=1 Uniform Resource Locator. I have eventually given up on using the "
Microsoft" "
OneDrive" Cloud Providing Service.
Using the "
Microsoft" "
Office" Desktop Suite has been an Even Worse Experience. The built-in "
Microsoft" "
Windows" "
Mail" Desktop Software Application is taking ages to load and sometimes it is disappearing without any explanation. The "
Microsoft" "
Office" "
OutLook" Desktop Software Application is also taking ages to load and it is constantly changing its Graphical User Interface. The moment when a User is proudly getting used to a Certain Sequence of Buttons, then they are rapidly changing it, so that nothing is really clear at any given point in time.
The Notion of Updating is also getting to an Extreme these days. Instead of having a simple "
Send and Receive" Button as they used to have, now there are a few "
Update" Buttons for each and every possible thing out there.
Generally, I have noticed that most of the Software Applications, both Static and Mobile, are tending to have for Every Little Tiny Thing an "
Update" System, a "
Backup" System and a "
Cloud" Providing Service, as these are the Trendy Words these days. They are getting to an Extreme without being based on any Solid Reason.
The "
Microsoft" "
Office" "
Word" Desktop Software Application has been behaving quite nicely. I have been quite satisfied with it. There have been no crashes. Nothing appears to be evil around there. Or at least not in an Obvious Way.
Instead of going through these Weird Experiences, I would recommend to a Simple and Plain User to choose from the start a "
Linux" Distribution. I think that they must be including some of the "
OpenOffice" or "
LibreOffice" Desktop Suites even in some Standard Distributions.
I have installed again a Full Software Installation of the "
CygWin" Environment, which X-Server unfortunately does not work well on only 4 Giga-Bytes of Random Access Memory. It is still providing a lot of useful Command-Line Software Applications. Its Full Software Installation Kit is taking around 19 Giga-Bytes of Data, while its Full Software Installation is taking around 93 Giga-Bytes of Data. But it is still not the Real Thing.
I still cannot conceive a Sound Reason to choose the "
Microsoft" "
Windows" Operating System over a "
Linux" Distribution.
Best Regards,
DOBRESCU_Mihai,
"
United_D.M.! - Software for the Future".