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It's all about applications. The % of business apps out there with Linux support is negligible. The majority of mid-large sized companies worldwide would fail w

• voxic11 1y ago
  Office and Excel are now both browser based though right? So they should run on Linux as well as they do on Windows. The last two companies I have worked for didn't even use Office or Excel they used Google Workspace.
  • BobaFloutist 1y ago
    The browser based versions are inadequate for power users, especially for excel.
• threetonesun 1y ago
  I can't remember the last time I used or saw someone else use an "office app" outside of the browser. Which is not to say no one does, more so that the argument that you need Linux specific installed applications is not as strong as it was say, 10 years ago.
• korse 1y ago
  This is what has continually killed it in my experience. Orgs run microsoft software and have basically no business case to switch. People have said this before, but how much frustration does it cause when microsoft moves a default ribbon around? Try moving those people to a program with different icons. Yikes. Now do it across a giant organization and try to justify the resulting performance hit to a board. This isn't even getting into all of the arcane business logic that keeps processes moving built on excel sheets, fucking macros and who knows what else. Sure, most of it works fine but when it doesn't and people don't know how, why or where...