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Source: https://www.theverge.com/tech/918797/switched-to-linux-dont-miss-windows

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>In January I finally made good on my threat/promise to install Linux on my desktop. I wanted to see how far I could get using a Linux PC as my main computer without doing a bunch of research beforehand or troubleshooting afterwards. Since then I have booted into Windows exactly twice: once to scan a multipage document that wasn’t scanning right in Linux, and once to print a photo for my kids’ school on extremely short notice. There’s a reason it’s taken me three months to write the next installment in my Linux diary: nothing has gone horribly wrong.

Source: https://www.theverge.com/tech/918797/switched-to-linux-dont-miss-windows From the post: >>In January I finally made good on my threat/promise to install Linux on my desktop. I wanted to see how far I could get using a Linux PC as my main computer without doing a bunch of research beforehand or troubleshooting afterwards. Since then I have booted into Windows exactly twice: once to scan a multipage document that wasn’t scanning right in Linux, and once to print a photo for my kids’ school on extremely short notice. There’s a reason it’s taken me three months to write the next installment in my Linux diary: nothing has gone horribly wrong.
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There are others. LibreExcel is not as good as open office excel.

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That is a big one. There are companies where entire departments are run by a few complicated Excel spreadsheets. Replacing those with custom software is possible, but not worth the cost. If they were forced to use Linux the best they could do is run Excel in a VM (or Wine, or whatever).

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Yeah. But then again excel wasn’t a programming language and any company that runs on this type of shit needs to go bankrupt.

Copilot find me profits.

Best I can do is poison the world.

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Yes, it good enough.

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Agree. But if your a hard core pipe hitting excel user, there are a few idiosyncrasy’s that are a challenge.