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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

the catch is when you really need specifically O365 for some reason, e.g. we had to get the O365 download version for my kid's schooling because that was the specific version the "this is how you do office shit" classes were taught against, the online O365 didn't cut it

of course even the teacher was telling the kids "look you should just use libreoffice" lol

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is the school providing the license? because if they're not, then it is a tough call to require and force parents to pay for a non essential tool. This is why FOSS is such a powerful education ally. It doesn't cost any of the end users any money.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

you are both correct and fatuous, which is an ideal combination

assume that in the past 25 years everyone here has heard the gospel of RMS

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But why the downvote? Just because things suck we should just lie down and take it? We can at least talk about how it sucks and we wish it were different. There's nothing silly in wanting the world to be better.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

you are, without any sense of shame, evangelizing libreoffice to someone who compiled it straight from git like 12 hours ago because they use it constantly, in a community made entirely out of techies deeply involved with open source projects

and now you’re complaining that your weak shit got a tiny number of downvotes? cause we didn’t clap like seals at the mere idea of the existence of open source software? fuck right off, thanks

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

say friend, have you heard about our lord and saviour Richard

jooooin us nooow and shaaaare the soooooftware

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

you’ve fucking done it

my next movie marathon is gonna be Revolution OS, Battlefield Earth, Antitrust, and then I’m going to go into a coma

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

no no! you have so much to live for! like

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never mind, knock yourself out and rise up in vengeance

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

may my revenant embody the stuff vc nightmares are made of

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's the thing .... most people who are doing work themselves at home and for their own purposes, never need something like O365 ... when it comes to schooling it should be the same, unless the school is doing very specific particular thing just to justify using O365, then it shouldn't be required

Word processing is very simple ... I have an old Underwood typewriter from 1921 ... I can write and format a letter using it if I wanted to ... it shouldn't be any more complicated than that.

Microsoft pushing their software is just a cheap salesman selling snake oil that you don't need and doesn't do anything special.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

you are now getting fatuous in your evangelism and should desist