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    this doesn't work because it's Linux (lemmy.ml)
    submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    Background: Because of savings in infrastructure, I was allowed to switch some clients to Linux. Mostly those people who always failed on M$ Office, too, now complains about libreoffice.

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    [–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

    The dumbest clients are made for Windows. They probably all either have a nephew directly or know someone with a nephew who can be bugged with every computer question.

    Switching them to Linux makes you the nephew that gets bugged with every computer question.

    Why would you do this to yourself?

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

    No no bro you don't do that. Just let them use ms office. If they're tech savvy and want to switch then that's their choice.

    [–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago

    One of my annoyances about "switching to linux" discussion is that people seem to think of linux as a "free windows". Everything has to work like in windows, everything has to be in the same position as in windows, etc. They can't accept that linux is a different OS, with its own ways of doing things, but somehow macOS get a pass.

    [–] [email protected] 65 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

    What does this even mean? I must have had a stroke while reading this.

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

    I think it means like someone complains about Linux, saying it's not user friendly, when that same person has just as many issues with a Windows/Mac machine.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

    lol, dude. Just turn it off and back on again, okay. Simple!

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

    What does that even mean? Are less tech savvy people making fun of others facing issues with few Linux clients?

    [–] [email protected] 47 points 7 months ago

    c/aneurysmposting

    [–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago

    First, how does one even "fail" on MSO?

    Secondly, you switched over the least tech savvy people that relied solely on an existing workflow to get anything done. You destroyed their workflow, denied them the option to use older documents as a reference due to how badly messed up MS documents often get when opened with Libre and you gave them an alternative that's just different enough that nothing works as expected, but still similar enough to just be seen as a different office version.

    These are the last clients id switch over.

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    If you want better compatibility with Microsoft Office files, you could use WPS Office. It has given me better results overall than OnlyOffice and far better than LibreOffice.

    Not dissing the other suites, I like LibreOffice for daily use but there's nothing I can do about M$ Office templates bugging out because they don't follow their own OOXML implementation properly.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

    WPS had some annoying bugs in the past. Sheets for example had the wrong locales, £ instead of € or $.

    [–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    Can you retype the top/bottom text? 👇

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    So bad again? I should stop using english.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

    We will PRACTICE! TOGETHER!

    What were you trying to say in other words? Then I’ll retype the original for ya :)

    [–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago

    Nah keep working on it, there will always be someone who corrects your english in the comments so youre essentially getting free english advice even if they are a dick about it

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

    nah, it's okayish. it'll get better