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.
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jabjoe@feddit.uk 11 months agoLibreOffice 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.
drphungky@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 11 months ago
It’s an industry standard.
Go see what lawyers use. Until fairly recently Word Perfect was still a thing for them (well, about 10 years ago anyway).
You don’t get to choose the formats other people use, or what you’ll have to deal with.
Your attitude is the stereotypical never-had-to-face-reality mindset.
jabjoe@feddit.uk 11 months ago
It’s a monoply, not a standard. It’s not a standard as no one else can properly implement it. There are undocumented binary parts that were meant to be transitory to get through ISO. Which was just one of many dirty MS tricks to get it through ISO. The reference implementation is closed.
I don’t expect normal people to understand formats. I expect law makers to.
The UK government got this right : www.gov.uk/…/open-standards-principles
The EU have clobbered MS before over this kind of nonsense and should again. And Google and Apple and others.
Competition needs to be possible. We need to avoid today being tomorrow’s digital darkage.