Re:Java based OpenOffice app (Score 1)

Working in a small store, using my own computer as a hobby (employer/owner is computer-terrified) I use a Linux box with Mandrake 8.1 and StarOffice, with OpenOffice loaded, printing drawings, spreadsheets, and text to an HP OfficeJet600. All files over 2 months old were created in SO on a Windows box. Going to Linux/SO has worked ok, except every time I start the computer it throws the HP into an error mode, requiring re-power and reset time/date. Linux/OO requires addtional step of choosing which file system, SO or OO to save in. SO has more fonts and on-screen helps than does OO. If I had started in OO on the Windows machine, my perceptions may have been reversed, but for now going from Windows to Linux is easier when staying with SO and SO offers more to the user. Further info: Had to manually change file permissions upon loading old files into Linux, Printing needs manually allowing "anonymous user" in xpp. I am just half a notch above a JoeSixpack in computer literacy