Why don’t I use office software
Well, I’ve noticed something very interesting.
For writing text documents, I’d rather use LyX than Openoffice writer, the only thing it really doesn’t have is an interactive grammar and spelling checker, maybe abiword will get better at that, hmm, that’s a good patch that someone [me] should submit to LyX 
I’ve also noticed that I get irritated with spreadsheet programs, I’m downloading scipy to run a simple run report.
I guess I just like big hammers for my tasks, but I’m not sure if that’s a bad thing 