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I keep hoping Microsoft will go one step too far and everyone will be forced to switch. Hasn't happened yet.

• Kye 5y ago
  Linux really doesn't have good alternatives for most of the tools I use, and none of it runs in Wine and similar, so I hope not.
  • flatiron 5y ago
    It’s hard to beat windows native office. MacOS version stinks and the web version is pretty slow on complicated stuff. That’s why I use windows on my work PC ans WSL for the dev stuff.
    • smoldesu 5y ago
      It's not everyone's favorite answer, but LibreOffice works fine for me. I've set a number of documents with it (including my own resume) and it works perfectly fine. It's not the most intuitive program ever made, but it's nothing if not comprehensive.
      • amanzi 5y ago
        You're not going to convince hardcore Office users (like me) that LibreOffice is good enough. I try it occasionally on my Linux laptop, and I have nothing good to say about it.
        • Kaze404 5y ago
          That's interesting, I have the opposite perspective. I'm not a power user in the sense that I use it to write documents, but at work we generate docx files from code (not a good idea) and a significant amount of the time we have perfectly fine files that render as we expect on LibreOffice but break unexpectedly on Word. Sometimes it even renders fine on the web version, but still incorrectly in Word itself. Edit: I should clarify that I don't mean to contradict you. Just thought it would be an interesting perspective to read about.
          • flatiron 5y ago
            Personally I deal with word templates and decades old xlsx files. OG office is my only go to and honestly it’s great. I don’t buy office for home so for kids projects it’s great. But not for payday stuff.
    • temac 5y ago
      > MacOS version stinks I have not tried it yet but was thinking I could need it one day; what particularly stinks about it?
      • flatiron 5y ago
        They are two different animals. My old job had office documents to complex that windows vm with office performed better than native macOS.
  • amanzi 5y ago
    What are you missing out the most on Linux? For me, it's really just the Office apps, everything else I've found works just as well on Linux.
    • Kye 5y ago
      Pretty much everything. I've used both Linux and Windows extensively over the last decade plus and am very familiar with the available alternatives and find those that exist for what I use lacking. Trying to list them off just invites people to pick suggestions off whatever list they have ready without regard for the needs of the person they're suggesting at, and it gets tiresome.
• robbedpeter 5y ago
  Frog boiling is an art.