Originally posted by ssokolow
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When it comes to Libeoffice vs MS Office that 80% of the people only use 20% of the features is true. But there is a double sided problem here. Like Libreoffice supports master documents properly and MS Office does not in a usable way. Yes use a Master document with MS Office is way to make your document screw up badly so you lose all your work and at worst everything in your documents directory as well.
We have the horrible problem here users best served by Libreoffice are users who will be badly served by MS Office and the reverse as well.
Microsoft Word also only implement features that Microsoft developers feel as important and ignore the rest as well. Yes same with MS Office dropping legacy document import and many other things.
Originally posted by ssokolow
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Sound card drivers in DOS you could say are user mode code as well and when sound card driver were built into Windows they are kernel mode as well.
Some of this is working on where the correct lines should be.
Lot of people miss that until recently with Nvidia closed source drivers you could not log two users in at once with X11 and both with opengl graphical acceleration. GPU resource allocation being in user space in the X11 server is not practical for a multi user use case.
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