On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 7:22 PM, Arun Khan <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 12:01 PM, balachandar muruganantham
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > we want to use the distro for office use meaning it will be used people
> who
> > are not techie.
> >
> > we will be doing the following
> > 1. Take printout of PDF.
> > 2. Take print out of word doc using Libreoffice / open office
> > 3. Should support Canon 2900B Printer / any other printer on network
> > 4. Should support chrome web browser.
> > 5. should be easy to file share.
> >
>
> Pretty much any distro supports all of the above.  The specific apps
> would depend on whether you choose KDE / GNOME / XFCE / LXDE or other
> desktop environment (DE)
>

are you sure? i am experiencing the opposite.


>
> > i have used ubuntu and its not office friendly.
>
> Can you please elaborate on the above?   Is the default interface a
> problem or something else?
>

i am not talking about user friendly. i am talking about office friendly.
my staffs are having trouble in using it. they dont print stuff properly.
setup is tedious. even after setting it up, stops working some time.


>
> >
> > Please suggest.
> >
>
> Without specifics issues that you have with Ubuntu, it is kind of hard
> to suggest something else.    The KDE / GNOME / XFCE or other DE in
> any Linux distro is more or pretty much the same.
>

agree. PDF printing is not same across platforms. unable to setup printer
drivers easily. Tamil unicode texts are not visible properly in ubuntu.

anything and everything i need, i have to do lot of hacks and
configurations to get it working. i also need to read lots of mailing lists
/ forums / documentations.

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