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There are other reasons to not like Word other than 'it six's. One is availability. If you're on Linux all day, your options don't really contain word - it's
by chaxor 3y ago
There are other reasons to not like Word other than 'it six's. One is availability. If you're on Linux all day, your options don't really contain word - it's not free to download and install due to needing a license.
You have to go and find some other computer that runs windows, and start it up - just for that one document. Then you have a single use computer, which obviously isn't a great experience.
Closest thing that I use is Google docs, sometimes. I (and many others like me) know how to use word (and excel) pretty well due to some life in that world. I still remember most of many of the hotkey combinations to step through the menus.
The reason I use vim for everything now is - I use vim for everything. I live in vim/tmux/ssh/tui, so most problems go there first if they can.
There are obvious benefits to the vim/git/Typst setup, if plots need to go in a document for example, but it's also strengthened by word not being easily available.
- criddell 3y agoThere is a free web version of Word that is pretty good.
- ashton314 3y agoYou lost me at “web”. Local-first is so much nicer for my workflow—and I am sure this holds for most other people.
- criddell 3y agoThe person I responded to uses Google Docs.
- dredmorbius 3y agoKey word, sometimes: Closest thing that I use is Google docs, sometimes.... The reason I use vim for everything now is - I use vim for everything. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39230525 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39230525>
- yashrk 3y agoDo you mean a Word from Office360? From my experience Word from Office360 breaks complex formatting of desktop Word document even worse, than LibreOffice/Google Docs does.
- chaxor 3y agoYou mean OpenOffice? Because it's not quite the same thing. It can cause some differences in appearance for docx (though that doesn't mean much, since M$FT Word also doesn't display their own doc format consistently either).
- criddell 3y agoNo, OpenOffice is the Apache project that shares ancestry with LibreOffice. I’m talking about the Microsoft product that is now sold under the Microsoft 365 Online brand. It isn’t a perfect replacement but for the times I’ve used it, it’s been pretty good.