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[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 54 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Switch to Linux Mint and Libreoffice. You will thank me later!

[–] shilohcode@lemm.ee 16 points 1 week ago

This is the way. Any Linux and FOSS alternatives really.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I've been using LibreOffice and before that OpenOffice for as long as I've known about them being options. It's honestly baffling to me that any home user would ever pay for MS Office. What on Earth does it offer that any home user could conceivably need?

[–] r_deckard@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

One doesn't need to pay for MS Office. Not home users, anyway.

[–] orgrinrt@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Familiarity, I suppose.

[–] jsonjson@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Former burned out core LM developer here, the grass is not always greener (but maybe is if you don't know how the sausage is cooked).

[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

LM is pretty green

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

It’s always better when you don’t know how the sausage is made.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I, in fact, do not know how the sausage is cooked. It's great!

[–] jsonjson@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 days ago

Well, thank GNOME for it being somewhat usable, but I have higher standards.

[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Manjaro and SoftMaker Office works just as well

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

And then, you need a SW only available via AUR on arch based distro, see the toggle to enable AUR, do it, successfully install the app, make manjaro sw update and welcome in dependency hell ❤️