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Meh. I just use text files and emacs. And I hacked sc to use emacs key bindings for spreadsheets. It's far from an ideal system, but it works for me. Simpli
by retrocryptid 3y ago
Meh. I just use text files and emacs. And I hacked sc to use emacs key bindings for spreadsheets. It's far from an ideal system, but it works for me. Simplicity can be nice.
- post_break 3y agoIt's like saying I'm having engine trouble on my big rig, and you telling me about how you upgraded your tennis shoes.
- retrocryptid 3y agoDon't ask the question if you don't want the answer. And sheesh, dude, how many alts do you have?
- post_break 3y agoI don't know what an alt is. And this is not user machines, it's not like they can't run Word on their desktops, this impacts RDP hosts, machines that use an office backend for server based programs, etc. Hospitals, accounting firms, etc all will be heavily impacted by this.
- retrocryptid 3y agoAh. There's the difference. In our organization, users edit documents on personal desktops, laptops (and sometimes mobile phones and tablets.)
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- o1y32 3y agoHow is your personal preference relevant at all under a comment of enterprise-level setup? You are going to ask everyone in the company to use emacs?
- dingosity 3y agoEveryone in my company uses emacs, except the few who use vi. There is one guy who uses VSCode. I have no idea what he uses to type text documents for human consumption. So, sure. Use whatever tool works for you. Kind of bizarre you're wanting everyone to use Word and Edge (and Win 11). I mean... you should use what works for you. But you shouldn't freak out when people use different things. I hear some people use Macs, for instance. I mean... most of my daily effort goes into supporting a bank. There's A LOT of mainframe stuff. Some COBOL. Some guys using AIX (actually, a surprising number of guys using AIX) and (as mentioned previously, xterms and emacs or vi.) On the dev side there's more focus on file format standards than tools. So use whatever tool that generates files in the appropriate format. We probably could use Win11, but they started using AIX in the 90s and just never got around to moving to Windows.
- o1y32 3y agoAnd how is this useful and why should another company care about how things work at your company? Shouldn't those companies focus on more on the productivity tools their employees use?
- dingosity 3y agoPerson 1: I have a problem. Suggestions? Person 2: Here is a suggestion. Person 3: How dare you offer a suggestion when someone asked for suggestions!