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> the software was so slow it was completely unusable Which version? I just moved from Windows 11, but Office 2010 was flying: Word opened faster than Wordpad!
by csdvrx 4y ago
> the software was so slow it was completely unusable
Which version? I just moved from Windows 11, but Office 2010 was flying: Word opened faster than Wordpad!
> I had to buy a 365 subscription.
I refuse to do that, and TBH that's why I moved to linux on the desktop (actually, the laptop)
I want my software subscription free, working offline, and independant from the OS.
Wine does just that, and now my licensed Office 2010 that I got for cheap NIB on ebay will be with me forever.
- westcort 4y agoIt was Office 2013. I tried CrossOver on Linux, but found it to be unreliable, unfortunately. It is discouraging that a multi-billion-dollar company can steal from paying customers. Office, with no real features for most users but bloat and incompatibility-by-design (docx, xlsx) added since the 1990s, has become an office surveillance tool. Integrating LLMs will further their monopoly by atrophying our ability to write and—-given enough time—perhaps even our ability to think for ourselves. Anyone from Micro$oft care to comment? Given the exposure here, this may be the single the most expensive single-user software license Microsoft ever stole.
- csdvrx 4y ago> It was Office 2013. I use 2010 for a reason: the wine platinum level of compatibility. Just follow the install guides to throttle the installer IO and you'll have something wonderful, either in WSL or baremetal linux.