That’s not what this post is about.
I understand, and agree, with the sentiment that more people should consider Linux, but please don’t pretend the answer to every topic regarding Microsoft or Windows is “just switch to Linux”.
I have a machine running linux at home, I’m not afraid of a package manager, but Linux is not the answer to everything. Not yet at lesst.
I can’t refuse to use windows at work, and much as i would sometimes like to, I can’t just go and quit over what OS our computers run, that would end poorly for my livelihood and family. The purpose of this article is to highlight unfair behaviour by Microsoft, especially towards businesses. Telling the individual person to go switch to Linux is like telling somebody to just move to a different country because you did and like it there, instead of acknowledging their grievances.
simplejack@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Janette in finance is going to murder whoever tried to give her a FOSS alternative to Excel or forces her to fuck with a VM or web Excel.
We remember the last IT admin that tried to do a platform swap on her. RIP Patrick.
Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
I think the most infuriating part about web Excel and desktop Excel is that they don’t have feature parity.
There’s stuff that works on desktop but not web and it’s really frustrating.
xavier666@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Don’t you know? Some calculations can only be done locally. They are too complicated to be performed over the cloud. It needs to be done on your i3/4GB RAM PC.
sazey@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I know your comment was in jest but the backend of these apps runs on cloud, the frontend is still using your local resources and is usually a bloated piece of poop to boot.
magic_lobster_party@kbin.run 7 months ago
It’s time to move to talking about spreadsheets on Linux instead of gaming on Linux
KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world 7 months ago
"Hey Janette. Switching to Linux will save the company $$$$$$$ per year.
Your options are:
Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
As someone who uses Excel on Windows and Calc on Linux, I can totally understand. There are some big differences so there’s a valid reason for sticking with Excel. Casual users won’t notice anything big, but advanced users will.
On the other hand, if you’re an advanced Excel user, it usually means you’re trying to make it do stuff that it isn’t very good at. If you want stuff that Calc can’t provide, it’s a clear sign you should have written that calculation in R or Python a long time ago.
phx@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
And honestly, I’ve been using Excel for work stuff a lot lately (no OO or I’d use that) and it fucks up a lot and in maddening ways. Click a cell at the bottom of your multi-page sheet “Oh, you must have been trying to click A5 so I’m going to scroll way the fuck up here”
Copy-paste from other (even MS) apps also sometimes does weird shit
Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Oh, it certainly has infuriating quirks. Like, if you copy a cell from here and you plan to paste it into 15 different places here and there. Somewhere along the way, you’ll accidentally add some text to another cell, and you lose the content of the clipboard. You need to copy that thing a second time in order to keep on pasting in the remaining places. Like, why is this a feature? Editing one cell suddenly kicks out whatever you had copied earlier? Why?
fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I really wish there was a more sensible path from WYSIWYG sheets to full programing language and database. Heck even better find a way to make calculation description procs that can be ran as separate functions for better scalability
Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
LabVIEW pulls off visual programming pretty gracefully. It feels like, it’s written by, and for, electrical engineers, so if you’re not familiar with circuit diagrams, it’s going to take a while to wrap your head around it. However, it proves to me that programming can look very different too. Let’s just hope that eventually someone does something similar to matrices, dataframes etc.