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Unfortunately the world runs on Word and Excel and unless you want the even worse Office 365 experience, you often do need some M$.
by Sayrus 2y ago
Unfortunately the world runs on Word and Excel and unless you want the even worse Office 365 experience, you often do need some M$.
- behnamoh 2y agoWhile I love Word for academic writing, I’ve found Apple’s Keynote and Google Sheets superior alternatives to PowerPoint and Excel.
- EasyMark 2y agoGoogle sheets just is no way superior to excel. I’m not even sure how one can say it’s superior. Keynote is fine though. My presentations are just pictures and texts. I refuse to do transitions and all that other garbage.
- bee_rider 2y agoFor now. The kids (incoming college students over the last couple years) like Google’s office suite better as far as I’ve seen. Anyway, real documents are written in LaTeX. Windows lives in this in-between space where it isn’t as easy Google/Apple stuff, but it isn’t as good as Linux. That gap is always closing.
- passwordoops 2y ago"real documents are written in LaTeX" Tell me you've never had a job in the real world without telling me you've never had a job in the real world
- bee_rider 2y agoYou should learn it, it produces much nicer looking documents. Anyway if you want to edit word documents properly you have to unzip them and then write XML (eww). So this is the easiest option.
- weberer 2y agoI've been in the industry for over 10 years, and I haven't seen anyone use Word since high school.
- ziddoap 2y agoAnd QuickBooks Enterprise, and CAD, and Windows-only CRM systems, and Windows-only internal financial programs in banks/credit unions, and Windows-only programs in government environments... It's a lot more than just Office that requires Windows.
- EasyMark 2y agoAnything I need from ms office I can do with their online apps. They’re good enough for the company I work at and like 99%of other possible places I might work. For my personal stuff markdown and libreoffice are fine
- edwintorok 2y agoIs there a case where Google Docs or LibreOffice cannot open a docx or pptx correctly? I haven't used Word or Excel since their '97 version. Even at work I can't remember a situation where I specifically needed the MS implementation.