Windows 11 made me reconsider GNOME 3 and even macOS.
Currently my main system is the Steam Deck, but I am seriously considering getting a Mac just to be able to use some proprietary software I need and I can’t find on Linux.
MS is spending an increasing amount of money and time on Linux, they should just release a Linux distro and cut the Windows legacy crap, like Apple did with the migration from Classic Mac to OS X.
I gave up on Windows about 20 years ago, and went to the Mac. It is a great platform, and the company actually cares about the quality of releases (sure, there have been dud years, but they released a major release every year for well over a decade).
I LOVE Linux, but at least here in the states it’s hard to do Enterprise work without proper Office. I hate it. Why does a Word Processor need a monthly subscription and updates every other day again?
The Mac for me is hospitable balance of an operating system that is cared and nurtured, with an ecosystem of both open source and commercial software I need to work. Plus it helps that it doesn’t make me want to pull whatever I have left out.
Windows is fine for an appliance, as long as I don’t have to actually use Windows. I have a ROG Ally on preorder for that very reason.
I was a hardcore Windows user for a long while. It is also where a lot of my IT experience is but it is such a headache that I actually switched over to Linux.
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I really can’t see myself using windows ever again, I haven’t for over a decade now and there’s nothing I miss. I also find that Open Office works well enough, GIMP and Krita are great alternatives to stuff like Photoshop.
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Why use MS Office 2007 when you can use LibreOffice?
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Are you saying this because of the file formats? You DO know you can saves your documents in the Ms Office 2007 formats, and even make them your default file formats, right?
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Hm… I was under the impression it was rare nowadays to have such a difference between the two, clearly I was wrong. And yes, with such layout problems between the two suites, you can’t use LibreOffice if you’re working conjointly with peoples using Ms Office. (Which is, lest be honest, the case almost all the time.)
That said, for peoples at home who don’t need to share a modifiable version of the documents they create, y would still recommend LO over MsO, for no other reason than the price. (Which DON’T include peoples bringing work at home, nor those working on some collaborative documents in their free time.)
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Wich is what I said should be donne in such a case in my last answer, just with my own words.
And no, using old MsO versions in not a sin, especially if you can’t do otherwise. (Not thut it would be a sin to use what you’re more comfortable with anyway.)
