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Linux would need to be willing to safe the work millions of people put into memorizing excel, word and windows workflows.

cwillu 5mo ago
“Linux” needs to do nothing of the sort. People who want to save their work by moving to a platform without those issues need to be willing to either do the work or pay for it.
- snerc 5mo ago
  I've never read a more archpilled comment
  - redeeman 5mo ago
    "i hate how the current system is, i see some other guys have something that doesnt have these issues, what the other system needs to do is make their system exactly like my current, so that I dont need to spend ANY effort myself" few moments later "i hate how the current system is"
    - cineticdaffodil 5mo ago
      "We should throw away the gdp of the us for a year or two so people can then have the same productivity" year of the le nukes desktop
  - engeljohnb 5mo ago
    Linux is doing just fine without normies.
    - lpcvoid 5mo ago
      The normies are what makes Microslop money, though. We need to get the normies onboard in order to fight MS' stranglehold on computing. Gatekeeping isn't the right move here.
      - engeljohnb 5mo ago
        I can't delete my comment now, but I think you're right. I don't consider "take it or leave it" to be gatekeeping, but when the world's biggest corporations pose a threat to software liberty, distros becoming more palatable to average users is strictly a good thing. Not that I'm even involved with distro development anyway. Probably would've been better to let the real OS engineers have the discussion on that one.
        lpcvoid 5mo ago
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mcswell 5mo ago
Libre Office (and a couple others) is pretty close to MsOffice. Not exact, but close.
- pndy 5mo ago
  It even got ribbon interface not so long ago - it's pretty pretty close, at least by UI
- machomaster 5mo ago
  Not for people who use Excel professionally, not even close. Excel is undefeated.
ninjagoo 5mo ago
> Linux would need to be willing to safe the work millions of people put into memorizing excel, word and windows workflows. It's a fair point. Organizational and personal inertia is a real thing. Maybe think of it as going through a divorce and entering a new relationship. You do it mostly because you want to, and sometimes you do it because you have to. OS as a digital spouse analogy? too far-fetched? think of how much time you spend with it in a day :-)

cwillu 5mo ago

“Linux” needs to do nothing of the sort. People who want to save their work by moving to a platform without those issues need to be willing to either do the work or pay for it.

snerc 5mo ago
I've never read a more archpilled comment
- redeeman 5mo ago
  "i hate how the current system is, i see some other guys have something that doesnt have these issues, what the other system needs to do is make their system exactly like my current, so that I dont need to spend ANY effort myself" few moments later "i hate how the current system is"
  - cineticdaffodil 5mo ago
    "We should throw away the gdp of the us for a year or two so people can then have the same productivity" year of the le nukes desktop
- engeljohnb 5mo ago
  Linux is doing just fine without normies.
  - lpcvoid 5mo ago
    The normies are what makes Microslop money, though. We need to get the normies onboard in order to fight MS' stranglehold on computing. Gatekeeping isn't the right move here.
    - engeljohnb 5mo ago
      I can't delete my comment now, but I think you're right. I don't consider "take it or leave it" to be gatekeeping, but when the world's biggest corporations pose a threat to software liberty, distros becoming more palatable to average users is strictly a good thing. Not that I'm even involved with distro development anyway. Probably would've been better to let the real OS engineers have the discussion on that one.
      - lpcvoid 5mo ago
        [flagged]

mcswell 5mo ago

Libre Office (and a couple others) is pretty close to MsOffice. Not exact, but close.

pndy 5mo ago
It even got ribbon interface not so long ago - it's pretty pretty close, at least by UI
machomaster 5mo ago
Not for people who use Excel professionally, not even close. Excel is undefeated.

ninjagoo 5mo ago

> Linux would need to be willing to safe the work millions of people put into memorizing excel, word and windows workflows. It's a fair point. Organizational and personal inertia is a real thing. Maybe think of it as going through a divorce and entering a new relationship. You do it mostly because you want to, and sometimes you do it because you have to. OS as a digital spouse analogy? too far-fetched? think of how much time you spend with it in a day :-)