Cacarulo: Which is the best Linux distro and why?

[Cacarulo]

> Interesting - I didn't know that. Of course,
> you undoubtedly have infinitely more
> experience with spreadsheets than I do.

Not that much. Although I certainly use spreadsheets, my experience is quite limited. When I need to do some difficult task I usually seek for help

> Here I have to confess that I rarely have
> the need to do any sort of presentation and
> when I do it usually involves a chalk board
> and photocopied handouts. :-)

I don't do any sort of presentations either but I do receive a lot of e-mails with powerpoint attachements. BTW, I hate those e-mails.

> Apparently I'm not the only one. A quick
> Linux Google for presentation programs
> didn't turn up much, other than the expected
> links to StarOffice and OpenOffice.org.

> There is KPresenter, which is part of the
> KDE office suite. Of course, that would
> necessitate running KDE, which sort of
> defeats the whole purpose. Also I haven't
> had any experience with KPresenter, but I
> have used KWrite, the word processor. It is
> okay, but not nearly as sophisticated as
> OpenOffice Write or Abiword.

I will try KPresenter and see how compatible it is.

Thanks.

Sincerely,
Cac

[Cacarulo]

> I will try KPresenter and see how compatible
> it is.

Bad news: KPresenter doesn't support powerpoint files.

Cac