About the best I can say would be "Could be worse".
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Used Open Office before and I’ve never really liked it. It’s always seemed like a knockoff of word 95. Much as I hate Microsoft Word 2007 it has a cleaner interface.
I was hoping to use Open Office on a netbook that didn’t have MS Office installed, but I needed to work on documents that would eventually end up as Word docs. It ended up being too much work cleaning up the Open Office doc once I copied it into Word. (I hope all that makes sense!)
About the best I can say would be "Could be worse".
I tried it and really wanted to like it. I'd say it's at about 95% of Office overall. 97% on fit and finish and a couple more percent of missing features. Unfortunately, the missing features are all ones I use frequently. Those features are kind of obscure, though, so I think a lot of people could use OO and be perfectly happy.
One really stupid, ah, feature...is that the whole suite shares one Recently Used File list. Why the hell would you want recent spreadsheets cluttering up your recent file list in your word processor, especially when you can only get the list up to 9 entries or whatever.