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+___Great Posts, Everyone.
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+___I do not think that this Issue is trivial. Most of the Proud Users are nowadays using the Personal Computer mostly as a more sophisticated Automated Typing Machine. They are not interested in the Binary Code and in the Assembly Language.
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+___I have started using a Word Processor on a tiny clone of the British Sinclair "
ZX-80" "
Spectrum". I do not remember its name right now. I was saving the Texts on Audio Cassette Tapes and on 5¼ Floppy Disks. I had no Local Printer at that time. That was back in the Proud Year of 1,992 - that is, Twenty-Six Years ago.
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+___I have started using the "
Microsoft" "
Windows" "
Office" Desktop Suite back in the year of 1,993. After Twenty-Five Years, it still looks like the
Best Option Around. They are attempting to provide Office-as-a-Service. The only problem is that most of us do not feel like being subscribed to them. Software should really be free.
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+___The "
Apache" "
OpenOffice" Desktop Suite is quite a solid replacement. I thank the System Administrators of this Forum for informing us that it is still alive and kicking.
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+___I am soon about to start the usage of the "
Libre" "
Office" Desktop Suite Replacement. I have no feedback to output right now out of it.
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+___Again, the Idea is that Writing is basically the First Thing that one does on a Personal Computer. Turning the Personal Computer into a sophisticated Tablet or SmartPhone or Internet Protocol TeleVision Receiver is still quite a Complicated Endeavor that still sounds like being revolved around the moon at a very good price. And - to be honest - most of these Monkey Tricks are not working well yet.
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+___I shall continue watching this Thread. Updating is very necessary these days. Maybe something good will come out of this.
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+___Best Regards,
+___DOBRESCU_Mihai.
+___Bucharest, România,
+___South-Eastern Europe,
+___Northern Hemisphere.
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+___EDIT: I see that the desires of the Moderating Teams and of the System Administrative Teams are not to Multi-Post. I shall attempt to respect their desires.
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+___I have successfully started using the "
Libre" "
Office" Desktop Software Suite. I can confirm again that the most used Automated Operation that is currently used by the Simple Users is to write Documents and to send them as Electronic Mail Messages. The rest is for Software Professionals. This is why such a piece of Software Application is quite important.
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+___The "
Libre" "
Office" Desktop Software Suite has behaved quite normal so far. I have not encountered any crashes, at all. It has even the option to open "
Microsoft" "
Word" Documents. I still wonder if there is any reason to come back to the Paid Subscription of the "
Microsoft" "
Windows" "
Office" Desktop Software Suite.
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+___Any other comments and opinions are welcome, mostly for the newcomers in this area.
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+___Version: 6.1.1.2 (x64)
+___Build ID: 5d19a1bfa650b796764388cd8b33a5af1f5baa1b
+___CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0; UI render: default;
+___Locale: en-US (en_US); Calc: group threaded
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+___EDIT: I can also confirm that the Updating Process is somewhat working for the "
Libre" "
Office" Desktop Software Suite.
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+___The "
Check for Updates" Action is revealing the following Pieces of Information:
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+___[ Check for Updates ]
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+_______[ Status ]
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+____________LibreOffice 6.1.3 is available.
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+____________The installed version is LibreOffice 6.1.1.2.
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+____________Note: Before downloading an update, please ensure that you have sufficient access rights to install it.
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+____________A password, usually the administrator's or root password, may be required.
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+_______[ Description ]
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+____________The automatic download of the update is currently not available.
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+____________Click 'Download...' to download LibreOffice 6.1.3 manually from the website.
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+___Actually, running the Software Installer that is present at the
https://www.libreoffice.org/donate/dl/w ... in_x64.msi Uniform Resource Locator does not automatically update the Desktop Software Suite, but it actually starts a Brand New Software Reinstallation Process. Maybe this is how it is supposed to be working. This might be the Lengthy Explanations of "
robleyd"'s Note: "
the <<Updates>> for <<Apache>> <<OpenOffice>> are Full New Versions".
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+___The current World-Wide Software World is extremely confusing. The "
Microsoft" Corporation has gone insane, as someone was rightly stating on a "
Medium" Thread, arguing that hitting the "
F1" Key inside the "
Notepad" Software Application was leading at the time of his writing to a Web-Site that did not contain the "
notepad" Character String at all. I myself want to remove a Physical Address from a "
Microsoft" Account and I am surprisingly invited toward the closure of my "
Microsoft" Account, for no Logical Reason at All.
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+___Both the "
Apache" "
OpenOffice" Desktop Software Suite and its Fork, the "
Libre"
Office" Desktop Software Suite seem to copy older Versions of the "
Microsoft" "
Windows" "
Office" Desktop Software Suite, with a Look-and-Feel as old as even Twenty Years ago. But let us see if they are doing their job.
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+___Version: 6.1.3.2 (x64)
+___Build ID: 86daf60bf00efa86ad547e59e09d6bb77c699acb
+___CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0; UI render: default;
+___Locale: en-US (en_US); Calc: group threaded
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+___
https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/plugins/ ... b77c699acb
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+___"
LibreOffice 6.1 is up to date."
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+___UPDATE: We have also purchased a Nice Subscription to the "
Microsoft" "
Office" "
365" Desktop Software Suite.
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+___The Reason? - one might ask.
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+___Beside the usual "
Why not?" Modern Question, both the "
Apache" "
OpenOffice" and the "
Apache" "
LibreOffice" Desktop Software Suites do not currently have Mobile Versions. Or maybe they have, but we are currently not aware of it. Feel free to correct us.
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+___The "
Microsoft" Corporation - as Insane as it is presenting itself nowadays - is Currently Struggling to maintain Mobile Versions of their Software Applications. We have been able - with Great Effort - to configure the "
Microsoft" "
Launcher" Software Application both on a Tablet Personal Computer and on a SmartPhone, both running Quite Recent Versions of the "
Google" "
Android" Operating System. After this Great Success, we have been somewhat running also the Mobile Versions of the "
Microsoft" Software Applications.
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+___In our view, the Greatest Global Mess is currently produced by the TeleCybernetic Accounts. There is still no way to have one Personal TeleCybernetic Account for the Whole TeleCybernetic Mess. There is still a Struggle going on between the "
Microsoft" Corporation, the "
Google" Corporation and their "
FaceBook" Corporation for the Supremacy over the Overall User Account, as the "
Yahoo!" Corporation seems to be almost extinct these days.
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+___The Internet Protocol TeleVision Clients are still in their Childhood Era. It is still safer to turn on a Classical-Basic TeleVision Set using the main "
Power On" Button. The Current State of the Internet is so Messed-Up, so full of Software Defects, that sometimes is simply easier just to give up and to further refrain from using any kind of Software Instrument at all.
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+___One Good Example in this direction would be the "
TapaTalk" Software Application. It should be working. It has already gone beyond its 8.0.1 Version. Still, it is giving Weird Software Errors that a Normal Human Being cannot comprehend. It should be used for Easier Browsing of Forum Threads. In Reality, it is just producing a bunch of "
Personal Home Page" / "
P.H.P.: the Hypertext Preprocessor" Software Errors.
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+___Also, the Current Layout of More Recent Versions of the Software Applications - especially the Mobile ones - is looking Thoroughly Schizophrenic. There is no Intuitive versus Counter-Intuitive Battle anymore. God Knows how they are designing them and how they are implementing them. Everything seems to be a Bunch of Pieces of Information that are just Flooding the Puzzled User.
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+___Of course, Wise and Olden Software Applications like this "
phpBB" Forum are still maintaining their Sanity.