Small steps
I’ve been fighting with some stuff in Ubuntu that is pretty straight forward on Windows.
The first was as easy as it gets: editing word documents. It seems that the word documents that OpenOffice delivers have a quite bad layout. Especially the content index is lousy. I must say I’m annoyed by this, I really try to use FOS for everything, but in my job I encounter a lot of MS Word documents. I need to be able to create and edit them.
The second was: we (Componence) switched to Exchange 2007. Ah well, that’s really old, so I guess Evolution supports that. It doesn’t. F*ck! It will be supported in the next release of Gnome, if they (Novell) are able to resolve some licence problems.
The third is that I’d like to be able to use an extra monitor on my laptop. I’ve been using the external monitor as a mirror for ages now, but a real spanning desktop would be nice. It turns out that this is really simple. Why didn’t anyone try to implement that in a way that doesn’t require any config file changing? This is way too simple, and possible for nearly a year already!
The last point made me find a weird thing in Compiz: it can’t handle a viewport larger then 2048 wide or 2048 high. Ehm?
The word file and exchange crap made me install Windows in a Virtual box. I have this open constantly and I spend a lot of my time working in Windows again. I hate it!