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[–] Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works 78 points 14 hours ago (27 children)

It means it's time for businesses to figure out how to use LibreOffice

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 9 points 14 hours ago (11 children)

I really don’t like Microsoft, but the two products I think Microsoft got mostly right are Microsoft Office and Visual Studio. I really can’t find comparable products.

Open office and forks feel like Microsoft Office 97. While usable, it takes me twice as long to do things. I would almost prefer to use a LaTeX editor over word. Excel? Idk

From a business perspective, it doesn’t make sense to switch to libre office. W10 support also ends 10/25. It is highly irresponsible for an IT department to continue to use EOL products so they should be changing to W11 and new Microsoft office

For individuals, I mean…. I just installed a W10 VM to give me more time to find a Linux compatible alternative to turbo tax and to use visual studio so idk

[–] Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Visual studio code has vs codium, which is a free and open source alternative. I've tested it a bit and it's really nice! But yeah, not vs

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 1 points 12 hours ago

Yeah I tried vscode but it’s just similar enough to vs yet different enough to be frustrating

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