> As a Linux user, I prefer much more the old Microsoft. Me too. I prefer excel from 1991-1993 era. It fit on three 2.5" floppys, and did the basics perfectly.

> As a Linux user, I prefer much more the old Microsoft. Me too. I prefer excel from 1991-1993 era. It fit on three 2.5" floppys, and did the basics perfectly. Around Office 2004 I started to encounter weird formatting bugs (e.g., rotated axes would sometimes be clipped off the screen if I resized the chart), and this has persisted to today where Office Excel (v15) on macOS still fucks up the fonts, e.g. this morning I couldn't change the the x-axis font label: it was frozen as Calibri. Maddening. I try to use Google Sheets for simple sharing spreadsheets, or gnuplot+awk for technical precision, but the industry is so MS heavy it is challenging. I've seen an uptick in Google Docs/Sheets/Slides usage over the past 5 years that is encouraging. MS is clearly a monopoly on office productivity software, but slowly becoming a duopoly as Google Apps pick up momentum. Star Office still hurts too much when switching between Linux <> PC. (And Apple's Pages/Numbers? LOLOLOLOL)