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Well, my definition of "works" is that you can read it. Authoring new documents should use ODF. And again, MS Office works on Wine, so you can use that in the w

Well, my definition of "works" is that you can read it. Authoring new documents should use ODF. And again, MS Office works on Wine, so you can use that in the worst case.

dingo_bat 9y ago
I have used Linux (Mint) for all my work in college for ~6 months. In my experience, using Word online on Chromium was better than using libre Office locally. Both features and UI wise. Both for reading existing stuffs and for making new docs. I have nothing agains Libre Office but suggesting it can be used as a replacement for MS Office in any capacity is disingenious. Regarding wine, no need for that now that Office online and Google docs exists.
- davidgerard 9y ago
  > Regarding wine, no need for that now that Office online and Google docs exists. This is evidence you've never used Google Docs for real work and have never encountered its absolutely dismal docx rendering. I get stuff in Gmail regularly I then have to open in LibreOffice to bloody read.
skrebbel 9y ago
You're really undermining your own argument here, even though you started out very well. If I send an ODF to my lawyer, investor or accountant they're going to panic.
- dijit 9y ago
  That's disingenuous. Word has supported odt and odf for both read and write, for nearly a decade already. (2008 version supported it from preliminary checking)
- Sir_Cmpwn 9y ago
  Follow up with "open the file with Word". If they panic over that, you have an awfully stupid lawyer/investor/accountant. It'll even have the word icon on it! I doubt they even have file extensions enabled, they probably wouldn't even notice. Filing you into the "change resistant and lying to themselves" category of Windows user, too.
jhasse 9y ago
> MS Office works on Wine, so you can use that in the worst case. Only 2013 or older which you can't easily buy anymore. 2016 / 365 doesn't work at all: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=33762 https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iI...

Well, my definition of "works" is that you can read it. Authoring new documents should use ODF. And again, MS Office works on Wine, so you can use that in the worst case.

dingo_bat 9y ago

I have used Linux (Mint) for all my work in college for ~6 months. In my experience, using Word online on Chromium was better than using libre Office locally. Both features and UI wise. Both for reading existing stuffs and for making new docs. I have nothing agains Libre Office but suggesting it can be used as a replacement for MS Office in any capacity is disingenious. Regarding wine, no need for that now that Office online and Google docs exists.

davidgerard 9y ago
> Regarding wine, no need for that now that Office online and Google docs exists. This is evidence you've never used Google Docs for real work and have never encountered its absolutely dismal docx rendering. I get stuff in Gmail regularly I then have to open in LibreOffice to bloody read.

skrebbel 9y ago

You're really undermining your own argument here, even though you started out very well. If I send an ODF to my lawyer, investor or accountant they're going to panic.

dijit 9y ago
That's disingenuous. Word has supported odt and odf for both read and write, for nearly a decade already. (2008 version supported it from preliminary checking)
Sir_Cmpwn 9y ago
Follow up with "open the file with Word". If they panic over that, you have an awfully stupid lawyer/investor/accountant. It'll even have the word icon on it! I doubt they even have file extensions enabled, they probably wouldn't even notice. Filing you into the "change resistant and lying to themselves" category of Windows user, too.

jhasse 9y ago

> MS Office works on Wine, so you can use that in the worst case. Only 2013 or older which you can't easily buy anymore. 2016 / 365 doesn't work at all: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=33762 https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iI...