• BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
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      9 months ago

      Sigh.

      Sure.

      Now how do you: CAD, exchange, Publisher, Access, Excel (no, open versions of excel still don’t come close, they can’t even do tables), Onenote/SharePoint, etc, etc.

      And Linux is as messed up in its own way. Power management is off by default, so it kills your laptop battery (at least on every version I’ve tested). Notifications that you can’t silence without looking up a command line.

      No, the learning curve is still too steep to recommend to people who I will have to support.

      And while the Open/Libre office apps are “compatible”, people don’t have time to waste dealing with the ways they whack a document. Libre couldn’t even properly display the spreadsheet I use to setup a new machine, with 3 sheets and a few hundred lines, because tables.

      “Switch to Linux” is a simplistic answer that doesn’t address the needs of users. And I use Linux every day, as a serverOS, running VM’s and docker.

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        9 months ago

        What learning curve? Whether my mom clicks on the Firefox icon in Ubuntu or Windows makes zero difference