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Hi Microsoft! Please show your love for linux by doing the same with Microsoft Office!
by marcodiego 5y ago
Hi Microsoft!
Please show your love for linux by doing the same with Microsoft Office!
- imbnwa 5y agoIsn't that what Office365 is for or is that much of a downgrade from the desktop experience?
- NikolaeVarius 5y agoIts terrible and Teams on Linux is a trash fire on top of a dumpster fire on top of a landfill fire.
- swasheck 5y agoto be fair, that's just the Teams experience in general. if i leave it open for more than 4 hours, somehow it's chewing ~4GB RAM. i use the web client but, if i'm honest, i miss the notifications from that and miss meeting reminders :D
- hbn 5y agoThat sounds pretty close to my Teams experience on Mac
- vinceguidry 5y agoTry the unofficial client: https://github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux https://github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux
- flerchin 5y agoTeams on Linux is still Teams, but it works just fine for me. It can't do background blur, but is otherwise feature complete enough for me to attend stand-up on it daily.
- NikolaeVarius 5y agoCurrently Teams will not work with my Mic. Half the time it doesn't recognize its there, the other half its there but not picking up anything. Every other app I tested worked fine with the mic except for Teams. I've had to switch to using CHIME of all apps because that actually worked 95%+ time.
- dartharva 5y agoIf only ヾ(≧▽≦*)o They'll just point you to Office Online
- aliswe 5y agotbh i think i prefer the web based versions
- GhettoComputers 5y agoWho still honestly uses Office in their personal lives? Some people use excel for work but you don't buy that for yourself. Most young people I know just use google docs and never used MS Office so it doesn't even have the name branding for them to call the others bootleg versions. The ribbon was so disgusting and annoying that I never used it again and only used 2003 after trying 2007.
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- givemeethekeys 5y agoMost people who don't work for a tech department and many who do.
- marcodiego 5y agoPeople who need a level of compatibility with MSO that LibreOffice and OnlyOffice still can't offer.
- GhettoComputers 5y agoIs that docx or did they make something worst? I never swapped to docx and just used .doc, although it supports docx as well. Not much use for me anyway, most people I know just use google docs.
- marcodiego 5y agoIt is somewhat common to see commits on LO git that says things like: "OOXML specify X, but MSO does Y." Good compatibility with OOXML is extremely difficult. The specification is enormous, hard to understand and, even if you implement the specification, you have no guarantee that you'll get good compatibility with MSO documents.
- GhettoComputers 5y agoI honestly just saved LO in .doc and never had an issue when I needed office docs, is this something end users have an issue with or is it more backend?
- trzeci 5y agoInteresting, I've always thought that I will work on Linux, because I love Linux tools, but I will miss some Windows specific tools. And this is how I was rolling last 4 years. But what I really needed was Windows system with WSL and good integration of GUI apps (Still on W10 tho) where I can use my beloved tools for programming, and still have access to games, apps like Office (here only Excel that I care about) and some other Windows/macOS only. With Edge I switched a few months ago for testing. It's great to be honest. Especially because of support Chrome extensions - and here I need WASM development plugin. Firefox does not offer such ability yet. I decided to opt out from Google as much as I can. The only missing part in Edge is the tabs and history management. It's hard to name, but Firefox is somehow smarter in searching in my history of visited pages when I type on the search bar. OK, there is another one. If I type a page that I have already opened, then in Firefox, It automatically switches to that already opened page. In Edge the default choice is to open duplicated page.
- xattt 5y agoSssh, you’re saying the quiet part loud!
- jve 5y ago>The only missing part in Edge is the tabs and history management What's missing for tabs? Vertical tabs with tab groups are just great: https://www.houkconsulting.com/2021/09/tab-groups-vertical-tabs-microsoft-edge/ https://www.houkconsulting.com/2021/09/tab-groups-vertical-t...
- laumars 5y agoI recently bought my wife a new laptop. After 10 minutes of arguing with a fresh install of Windows 10 I had to rage quit for my own mental health: 0. There were a thousand different prompts nagging me to allow their tracking and ads (and some options amounted to either “yes to everything” or “yes to most things” with no “don’t fucking track me” option in sight. 1. Followed by Microsoft forcing my to tie my local user account to my Microsoft account. Then forcing me to enter the 30 character password that I usually just paste from my password manager for online accounts. 2. Then being greater by spamware that had an X button which literally did Jack shit. 3. And a chaotic task menu with 13 different control panels. I handed the machine to my wife and told her I can’t be her desktop support guy for this thing because there was a high risk of me throwing the laptop out the window in a rage (maybe that’s why it’s called “Windows”?) I honestly think the only reason people think they like Windows is down to Stockholm syndrome.
- wcchandler 5y agoI'd be happy if they put forth some development into WINE or some kind of compatibility layer. Bundle it into a container/pak
- rbanffy 5y agoHell no. At least on Linux machines we are not forced to use Outlook by our corporate handlers.
- ginko 5y agoYeah, we're forced to use Outlook 365...
- rbanffy 5y agoIt’s a bit less bad. At least it’s not a locally installed executable.
- pseudalopex 5y agoHow is that better?
- rbanffy 5y agoIt doesn’t soil the filesystem with its binaries.
- ginko 5y agoI still don't see how that makes up for all the drawbacks. Web-apps are terrible. You can't find them in your task bar, you often close them by mistake with your browser, they're a factor 10 slower and more resource hungry than they could be, they have terrible response times and they often lack major features of the native version. The discomfort of having to have some binary outside of the package manager in /opt/bin is pretty low in my list of priorities compared to that.
- Grazester 5y agoAn I think outlook is the best email client I have used.
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- eikenberry 5y agoWine runs MS Office great and if you're going to pay for Office, might want to pay Codeweavers to get commercial support for running it as well.
- amaccuish 5y agoNot shilling, but found WPS Office to be the best Linux office, followed by OnlyOffice. WPS Office even gets the look of MS Office pretty close, which makes the switch much easier.
- marcodiego 5y agoIME OnlyOffice has better compatibility with OOXML than LibreOffice. On the other hand, LibreOffice is faster for bigger docs and has more features.
- GhettoComputers 5y agoYuck! They copied the ribbon!