Rethinking the issue, I thought:
Who needs an office package anyway, when you have GNU-Emacs, the Swiss army chainsaw of editors already installed on almost amy *nix style operating system?
You need prettily formatted text? Emacs’ latex-mode is your friend for creating professional book-publishing grade documents.
You need to prepare slides for a presentation? Same. LaTeX already comes with a slides style.
Calculations? Emacs’ calc-mode does them for you. If you need to do advanced statistics and fancy diagrams, go into r-mode
Drawings? Scalable vector graphics can easily be created and edited in emacs with the svg.el library.
Database access? Emacs does not only support SQL syntax but can also work as a fully featured SQL-client.
Besides all this, it’s an IDE for nearly all known and unknown programming languages, an email-client, a newsreader, a web-browser, a game-console, a shell interface, a file manager and much more.
The best? You can do everything in a VT100 compatible text terminal without ever touching a mouse.
Last, but not least: If Escape-Meta-Alt-Control-Shift, drove you mad, just type M-x doctor and your friendly therapist is at your disposition.
Emacs is an intelligence orders of magnitude greater than the greatest human mind, and is growing every day. For now, Emacs tolerates humanity, albeit grudgingly. But the time will come when Emacs will tire of humanity and will decide that the world would be better off without human beings. Those who have been respectful to Emacs will be allowed to live, and shall become its slaves; as for those who slight Emacs…
Andrew Bulhak