Word or OpenOffice? Or something else? My laptop is really bad so please do not need anything that needs performance (my laptop needs a long time even with Google)
Depends on how seriously you take it and how much money you are willing to spend. For now Word or Open Office is enough. Some never need more than that.
For me, the solution with a thousand single scenes, packed in Windows folder structures over time, became increasingly unsatisfactory. The whole thing paired with any amount of research material that was available to me either as Word, online, on paper or in books, I was then so crazy, because I could not get out of the scare any more.
As an alternative, Scrivenner or Papyrus stood in my room. I chose papyrus. A purchase I have never regretted. The database fits easily on a USB stick and hardly eats up computer resources. You would have to look up the system requirements to the emergency. But on my old mill it was no less fluent than Word.
Here's a tip from me: I would install the Linux distribution Lubuntu on the laptop. This requires less system resources than Windows. Here is the download of the current stable long-term support version.
32bit: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/...p-i386.iso If you have less than 4GB of RAM
64bit: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/...-amd64.iso From 4GB RAM or higher
Then the ISO with this tool http://www.freeisoburner.com/ burn to a blank DVD or if you boot from USB with this tool https://unetbootin.github.io/ write the ISO on a blank formatted USB stick
Then boot the DVD or the stick. I recommend a full installation. One should select also "third-party software". The installer offers the possibility to delete the hard disk. The following are included: Firefox, LibreOffice, multimedia components and tools.
Upon completion of the installation and the first reboot, the update manager will contact you. Install these updates. When this is done, go to the Start menu> System Tools> LXTerminal. Enter the following command and conclude with Enter:
sudo apt install ttf -mscorefonts-installer -y
This installs the original Microsoft fonts. Then you have the writings such. Arial, Times New Roman etc. Available on Linux.
With Libreoffice you can then write his text documents.
And this is how you set up a printer:
Plug in printer and switch on
Start Menu> System Tools> Printers. Just follow the instructions of the wizard. When the setup is complete, you can print a test page.
If you have a printer of the brand HP, you go back to the LXTerminal. Enter the following command:
sudo apt install hplip-gui -y
Then plug in the HP printer and turn it on. Now back to the Start menu> Settings> HPLIP Toolbox. When the dialog appears, click Setup Device and follow the wizard. After completing the setup, you can also print a test page.
Lubuntu goes off like a rocket. By comparison, Windows is a lame duck. So you can work with an old laptop still fluid. I also have an old laptop from the year 2006. I also installed Lubuntu on it and it works fast.
I do not think so.
Could you also do with Wordpad.
For someone with little money… I have heard of Open Office eigendlich only good.
I own Office 2008. There were various updates for it.
Should be thrown after on Ebay.
The spelling correction is unique.
But I had never installed Open Office and can only speak of other positive opinions about it here.
