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There's quite a few people at CloudFlare who run Ubuntu on Macbooks. I run it on my home systems and my work laptop (a Lenovo, I'm one of the few who prefers i
by buro9 11y ago
There's quite a few people at CloudFlare who run Ubuntu on Macbooks.
I run it on my home systems and my work laptop (a Lenovo, I'm one of the few who prefers it over Mac hardware it seems). My wife runs it on her work computer, she's a film academic and finds it just works well enough given most of her time is in web apps or watching films (though she does keep a Windows machine for creating Powerpoint slides).
It just works, and has done for a long time.
- LeoPanthera 11y agoDoesn't PowerPoint work in Wine?
- tiatia 11y agoYes it does (with one tweak). I use Softmaker Office Suite for Linux
- MrTonyD 11y agoThanks for that suggestion of Softmaker. I've been trapped using Windows just because of MS Office. I just tried using their "freeoffice" and I was able to stay in Ubuntu while editing Word and Powerpoint. Libre Office had always messed up both my Word and PPT files - but freeoffice seems to work (well, so far at least.)
- tiatia 11y agoAs a word of caution: I am super happy with Softmaker since many years. But recently I had to work on an investment pitch presentation with a buddy who uses word. The ppt file, made by Softmaker, that I sent him did not look very good when opened with Powerpoint. (I send the file to their very good support service, they are always improving) I guess if you are interested you start with the previous version, which is free: http://www.freeoffice.com/en/ http://www.freeoffice.com/en/
- chungy 11y agoYou could also just use LibreOffice, which comes preinstalled on Ubuntu. GP merely mentioned _creating_ slides, which should pose no issue. Current versions of MS Office even support OpenDocument (*.odp files) for both reading and writing, so cross-compatibility should be good too.