All their software sucks
Show me a real competitor to OneNote on Linux.
Once I find that, I can switch.
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phoenixz@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Linux. Again. Install Linux
Ubuntu Linux Debian Linux Fedora Linux Pop!os linux Arch Linux for all i care
Install Linux, stop accepting this bullshit from Microsoft. ALL of their software sucks, they care more about marketing and pulling money out of your pocket than actually giving quality software.
Open source software blows everything Microsoft out of the water, stop accepting the bullshit
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 11 months ago
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Show me a real competitor to “insert app here”
I don’t know your app, I don’t know all apps. A quick simple search got me this: alternativeto.net/software/microsoft-onenote/?lic…
Sanity_in_Moderation@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Ok. Can you point me in the right direction?
I am building a gaming pc this weekend. I got to the bios screen tonight. I was going to install windows tomorrow. But I’ll give Linux a try.
Mint Cinnamon?
I know Proton works for Steam games. Can you twitch stream with Linux?
ademir@lemmy.eco.br 11 months ago
Look up Garuda, Nobara and Pop!OS
They are tailored specifically for gaming. I love my garuda with KDE
pizzawithdirt@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If yoı don’t have much Linux experience, probably Ubuntu or Nobara. You don’t need to use the terminal just as much in these distros.
BosnianCevap@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I just feel like such a noob when using linux. Most of the time when im putting commands in the terminal I have no idea what im really doing. Also still not too familiar with how to navigate the file structure.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Though console is way more effective and efficient, it’s not required. Install KDE and you have a beautiful near windows experience that actually works
drphungky@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Let’s not get carried away. Office suite (particularly Word, PowerPoint and Excel) is some of the best software I’ve used. Crazy powerful, easy to use, consistent across iterations. Outlook could have some QOL things but it’s still better than Thunderbird.
jabjoe@feddit.uk 11 months ago
LibreOffice is good enough. Thunderbird is good. There is no shortage of development tools on Linux, if anything, it is the best development platform.
I switched 100% for 2012 when I changed job from game development to Linux development . I’d been 100% Linux at home since 2005, but changing work platform was the acid test.
Microsoft can get stuffed. I’ve not needed them for over a decade.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Good enough for who?
I’ve seen too many cases of word docs being hosed, or not working right in Libre. So from a business standpoint that’s a no-go. And that’s the challenge.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
The very reason why that cross compatibility is so hard and broken is Microsoft sabotaging the fuck out of it. Microsoft has always been about money, dead stop. If theyust make great software for money, they will. If they can get away with mediocre to absolute shit software while sabotaging the competition, then that is what they will do (and have been doing for decades)
jabjoe@feddit.uk 11 months ago
So don’t work in Word docs. It’s not a proper standard anyway.
drphungky@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah, I’m not saying Libre office isn’t…fine, or that development tools on Linux aren’t good or even better. But the idea that all Microsoft software sucks is as demonstrably false as an opinion statement can be. They’re really good, and with Office the alternatives aren’t close. Do most people need all the functionality in Excel or PowerPoint? No, but they’re great pieces of software and ignoring that is just plain tribalism.