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Microsoft won’t support Office apps on Windows 10 after October 14th (www.theverge.com)
submitted 10 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 55 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Switch to Linux Mint and Libreoffice. You will thank me later!

[–] shilohcode@lemm.ee 16 points 10 months ago

This is the way. Any Linux and FOSS alternatives really.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I've been using LibreOffice and before that OpenOffice for as long as I've known about them being options. It's honestly baffling to me that any home user would ever pay for MS Office. What on Earth does it offer that any home user could conceivably need?

[–] r_deckard@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

One doesn't need to pay for MS Office. Not home users, anyway.

[–] orgrinrt@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Familiarity, I suppose.

[–] jsonjson@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Former burned out core LM developer here, the grass is not always greener (but maybe is if you don't know how the sausage is cooked).

[–] Liz@midwest.social 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I, in fact, do not know how the sausage is cooked. It's great!

[–] jsonjson@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 10 months ago

Well, thank GNOME for it being somewhat usable, but I have higher standards.

[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

LM is pretty green

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

It’s always better when you don’t know how the sausage is made.

[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Manjaro and SoftMaker Office works just as well

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

And then, you need a SW only available via AUR on arch based distro, see the toggle to enable AUR, do it, successfully install the app, make manjaro sw update and welcome in dependency hell ❤️