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For commercial software very few companies are willing to throw bucket loads of cash at the “which package format, which desktop environment, which shared libraries, …” problem, or deal with the same hassle trying to provide support for their software.
For open source stuff, repository maintainers are spending a huge amount of time to make updates work (while things inevitably get overlooked causing updates to break). The biggest problem is the “divided we fall, let’s divide everything into 100 different distros” mentality. The lack of nice GUI based configurators/wizards (allowing users to avoid terminal if they want) is only scratching the surface.
#WORD PAD WINDOWS XP PDF#
Although often PDF is used instead for exact positioning, which renders the whole point mute. I use it for business without issue, although if I were in an industry such as printing/publishing where documents needed to be 100% reproducible, the expectation would naturally be would to use the same software as the customer (whether that’s MS Office or Libre office). In some cases it matters, other times it doesn’t. It usually imports the formatting instructions ok, but they’re not always rendered the same. I’ve never seen libreoffice completely fail to open a document, but granted if you need everything to be positioned and paginated identically then libreoffice isn’t an option because the text rendering engine it uses is not a clone of msoffice. At those times I strongly feel the urge to uninstall it and replace with the old office 2007 I have around. It works well… until it fails to correctly open a complicated document a customer sent. Maybe you have a different opinion, which is fine, but I found libreoffice to be a compelling alternative that worked for me and personally I don’t regret switching.īut I have another qualm with libreoffice. It should have been optional, forcing changes on longtime users for no good reason pushed me away from microsoft office. I actually liked MS office before the ribbon, after the ribbon I felt the UI suddenly became less discoverable. How many features can you think of that home users use that are missing? IMHO Libreoffice is perfectly suited for the majority of office users who aren’t otherwise forced to use ms-office at work. Anyways, I think people like kurkosdr can handle it if they have the desire to! ?Īs for replacing your own software with things such as libreoffice, one quicky finds out their feature set is miniscule compared to the commercial alternatives. I don’t consider the mere existance of low level features a good reason to reject linux (or windows for that matter). It’s no worse than editing the registry on windows. These “most users” you speak of can get by without using a terminal these days unless they are interested in doing more advanced customization. It will be good enough once a distro ships with no user access to the terminal as it isn’t considered needed for most users. It only looks better, but still ships with the same problems. It’s almost a sense of relief especially as windows has transitioned towards a platform for advertising & monetizing users. You have to make up your own mind on it, but I think most of us who do are ultimately glad to distance ourselves from windows. Not everyone is willing/able to make the switch, there’s a lot of reasons people cannot or may not want to. It looks & feels fairly similar to windows. You’d be using the same software on linux, in which case you’ll be totally familiar with it on day one.Īs for desktop environment, I’d highly recommend KDE as the desktop with the lowest learning curve coming from windows.
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So if you use your time now to work libreoffice and other portable software into your daily workflow and distance yourself from windows specific software&tech, it’ll be that much easier to make the transition in the future. But if you are able to start by becoming accustomed to running FOSS software on windows, switching from windows to linux becomes much easier. If you need specific windows software, then I concede linux may not be right for you. I for one think desktop linux looks better every year, especially given the direction microsoft is plotting for windows (ie more ads and less control).
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So, what’s next? Desktop Linux still sucks and Windows 8.1 (which I run in all my computers) will get EOLed in 2023.