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>games See pretty much every other reply in this thread for my take on this >video game console emulators Wrong, most emulators are open source, support Linu

>games See pretty much every other reply in this thread for my take on this >video game console emulators Wrong, most emulators are open source, support Linux, and work great. >office productivity applications "way worse" is a bit harsh for describing LibreOffice. It works quite well in my experience. >document publishing I don't know what this is supposed to be. LaTeX is pretty good, though.

emodendroket 9y ago
> Wrong, most emulators are open source, support Linux, and work great. As I said to the other guy, for a number of systems there's no emulator except the one on Windows. > "way worse" is a bit harsh for describing LibreOffice. It works quite well in my experience. Yeah, because your experience doesn't involve using the advanced features that have no analogue and you aren't overly concerned that the formatting will look totally different if someone opens it in MSOffice.
- Sir_Cmpwn 9y ago
  >As I said to the other guy, for a number of systems there's no emulator except the one on Windows. The only one that comes to mind is that one Wii U emulator. Xenia doesn't support Linux but it's open source and the lack of support more a reflection of its relative immaturity than not being possible (I'm certain a Linux port will come eventually, I was even working on it myself for a while). >Yeah, because your experience doesn't involve using the advanced features that have no analogue and you aren't overly concerned that the formatting will look totally different if someone opens it in MSOffice. If the formatting of a docx looks wrong in LibreOffice that's not really a big deal if you can still read the content, which is usually the case. Writing new documents should use ODF, which MSWord supports fine (often transparently, non-technical users will probably see a file with the same MSWord icon and no file extension).
  - emodendroket 9y ago
    In some contexts it is a big deal, though. I suppose the answer to that is that everyone who uses Word should learn to use Latex instead but that's not realistic.
  - Maert 9y ago
    > If the formatting of a docx looks wrong in LibreOffice that's not really a big deal if you can still read the content, which is usually the case. You sound like someone who never collaborated on an Office file with someone from another company. If a company wants to be taken seriously, and some of their work involves exchanging and collaborating on presentations, text documents or tabular files, you cannot not use MS Office.
    - emodendroket 9y ago
      Even Mac Office used to be really bad here, although I think the newest versions are significantly closer to the real thing. I feel like this is kind of an extreme example of something I see a lot on HN: hackers who literally cannot imagine ways of using a computer that are outside of their experience.

emodendroket 9y ago

> Wrong, most emulators are open source, support Linux, and work great. As I said to the other guy, for a number of systems there's no emulator except the one on Windows. > "way worse" is a bit harsh for describing LibreOffice. It works quite well in my experience. Yeah, because your experience doesn't involve using the advanced features that have no analogue and you aren't overly concerned that the formatting will look totally different if someone opens it in MSOffice.

Sir_Cmpwn 9y ago
>As I said to the other guy, for a number of systems there's no emulator except the one on Windows. The only one that comes to mind is that one Wii U emulator. Xenia doesn't support Linux but it's open source and the lack of support more a reflection of its relative immaturity than not being possible (I'm certain a Linux port will come eventually, I was even working on it myself for a while). >Yeah, because your experience doesn't involve using the advanced features that have no analogue and you aren't overly concerned that the formatting will look totally different if someone opens it in MSOffice. If the formatting of a docx looks wrong in LibreOffice that's not really a big deal if you can still read the content, which is usually the case. Writing new documents should use ODF, which MSWord supports fine (often transparently, non-technical users will probably see a file with the same MSWord icon and no file extension).
- emodendroket 9y ago
  In some contexts it is a big deal, though. I suppose the answer to that is that everyone who uses Word should learn to use Latex instead but that's not realistic.
- Maert 9y ago
  > If the formatting of a docx looks wrong in LibreOffice that's not really a big deal if you can still read the content, which is usually the case. You sound like someone who never collaborated on an Office file with someone from another company. If a company wants to be taken seriously, and some of their work involves exchanging and collaborating on presentations, text documents or tabular files, you cannot not use MS Office.
  - emodendroket 9y ago
    Even Mac Office used to be really bad here, although I think the newest versions are significantly closer to the real thing. I feel like this is kind of an extreme example of something I see a lot on HN: hackers who literally cannot imagine ways of using a computer that are outside of their experience.