What do people use to replace Microsoft Office these days? Have they got wine working well enough to run them yet or are you still stuck with open source alternatives?
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I ran OpenOffice (Libreoffice) around 2008 for two years (can't remember exactly, but when I experienced Vista for the first time, I said nope and wiped my drive. It was fine back then, but those little incompatibilities drove me crazy
Depends on your requirements. I am mostly able to get along with LibreOffice and I tried Collabora, though both suck in their own way. Winedb says that Office 95 and 2013 have "Gold" rating. Maybe I will try later next week to install the 2013 version.
I know it's bad to say but MS office is a real barrier. That and done other compatibility issues with Windows apps made me abandon Ubuntu for Windows after several months where I otherwise loved it.
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I've used OnlyOffice (FOSS, really modern) and Softmaker Office, which is a proprietary German alternative with native Linux support. It also has the best docx compatibility of the Microsoft alternatives.
There are the FOSS ones, but when I've swapped people over from Windows or Mac and they want something familiar, I give them WPS Office. It's pretty much a drop in replacement for Word/Office.
I want to say I'd put them on LibreOffice, but it's too fucking weird and buggy for someone coming off of Office.
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I hope Clem enjoys his successes on the backs of the many contributors he's ostracized over the years.
Could you elaborate on this? I'm still distro shopping and know basically nothing about Mint's development history.
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Mint is my daily use OS at work, and will soon be taking over my windows machine at home that acts as a server.
I’m sure it’s a side effect of me being old and being busy all the damn time, but I love that it can literally be easier to install and use than windows, without losing any linux-ness. Big deal if it looks like I have a windows taskbar, I still have my screens taken up by Firefox, VSCode, terminal.
My main issue with mint has always been the reluctance to use a newer package base. Fortunately I think that's changing since they're adopting Wayland support and have their edge iso now. Currently running bazzite and it's pretty rock solid with a couple quirks, but I've always thought about going back to mint when they start updating their package base.
I switched to Mint for my new PC a few months ago. There are a handful of games that don't work on it, but they're few and far between.
Any Debian based distro is not really good to recommend for newbies, I think most beginners should start with Nobara linux, OpenSuse or if the PC is just for browsing the web a immutable distro(OpenSuse MicroOS, Fedora kryptonite,Elementary os,... Etc).
Clarification: The reason I don't recommend Debian is that the package manager break things frequently.
Not sure what you are saying here.
Regular Mint is based on Ubuntu. It is perhaps the most user-friendly distro.
LMDE is Debian based but includes all the same user facing tools and features.
I do not use Mint ( not a newb ) but it is a great distribution and great for beginners.
Did I blink and miss something... Mint actually looks pretty modern compared to how I remember the release notes, kernel 6.8... I've never bothered with it as it just seemed like a distro to run on old hardware if you don't mind your core being 2 years out of date, where Debian v.xx with kde just made more sense
Interesting..
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ngl linux mint aint that bad but i dont like their desktop envoirment choices not saying cinnamon is bad its alr
these days I recommend fedora kinoite to beginners from windows.
their os-tree package manager sucks it somtimes will refuse to uninstall stuff
You're not supposed to use that, and in fact, when i give it to beginners, i don't mention the package manager, I just use discover with flatpaks.
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It's a good distro and it is a lot harder to break on accident, but there are a lot more minor kinks than fedora workstation. It can also get confusing for newcomers on the somewhat regular occasion that you need a non-flatpak package.
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After my old notebook died, I bought a $200 old, but refurbished, ThinkPad from NewEgg, put Mint on it, and I'm quite satisfied.
I love mint, and Fedora Cinnamon is my daily driver. My only problem with cinnamon is that wayland support is still being developed, so it lacks 1:1 touchpad gestures.
Also can't run 4k at 60hz on my system at least. That's a total nonstarter for me.