Comment on Microsoft tests ad-supported Office apps for Windows users

singletona@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• BombOmOm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  You don’t even have to for this one. Just use Libre Office; been using it for years.

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  • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    That’s like saying you can continue to do business with the guy who keeps trying to stab you if you keep out of arm’s reach.

    It’s not wrong, but it’s not addressing the underlying problem.

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      What? Do you NOT do business regularly with Roberto from Futurama?

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      • singletona@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Roberto is a special case. For him it isn’t a choice, for microsoft it is.

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    • BombOmOm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      If someone is feeling locked into the Microsoft ecosystem, empowering them to unshackle themselves from a large part of it is important. It makes the transition later so, so much easier when you don’t need to figure out OS-agnostic softwares across the board.

      That said, if you are thinking of ripping the band-aid off all at once, I am 100% on board with it. Just not everyone is ready for it.

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    • singletona@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      That was the direction I was getting. Plus linux works fine without TPM 2.0, unlike windows 11. So no real need to axe existing hardware, and unlike the bad old days your hardware is likely well supported.

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  • meeeeetch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    You can just switch to Libre, but as Microsoft products (even paid) enshittify and as the Linux scene makes itself more user friendly, switching the rest of the way over just kind of starts to make sense.

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  • Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Does it have an email/collab product line Outlook yet?

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    • BombOmOm@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Thunderbird would be the go-to product for emails.

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      • Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Thunderbird lacks calendar, shared scheduling, and a number of other collab features.

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    • heavydust@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Does it have an email

      It’s for text and spreadsheet. It’s not a media player either. Nor is it a new operating system.

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    • Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I just switched the M365 yesterday and it is atrocious, I would argue that “like outlook” would mean fucking infuriatingly shit.

      I wish my company would go away from them, gsuite was really good but they are also a shit company.

      M365 is trying to do too much with everything it has.

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      • Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Whether you like it or not, it’s almost the defacto for business collaboration.

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  • user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Cough except for legginess on Wayland cough

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  • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    you don’t even have to

    Yes you do, that’s the point. Dump all Microsoft crap, dump Google, dump apple

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• over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Dang, hard to think, I’ve been running Linux for like 14 years now… 🐧

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  • singletona@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I took a couple years off of linux for the sake of gaming, but literally when those games could be run on linux i went back.

    Started in 04. took a couple years off in the late 2010’s. It’s been a wild ride for me.

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  • msage@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Time to distrohop again!

    I’ve landed on Gentoo, not switching again.

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• BombOmOm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  ‘swap to linux’ o’clock

  On a 100% unrelated note. This reminded me of a Half Life / Eve colab video: Clear Skies. It’s hot drop o’clock!

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