He gets out of Windows! ππ
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"I can't switch, there's this one function of this one programme that I may need in the next 50 years."
There's a Linux app for that but the buttons are in different places
"They told me to type words into a black screen with green letters, and the mere suggestion burned down my house and killed my family."
"But I am more than happy to root around the registry and make changes to obscure variables that will be reverted in the next update"
You mean through a GUI?
Geez, I wonder why.
I mean, just now I was talking about dual booting Linux and Windows, and they fight over the RTC, Linux wants UTC, Windows wants local time. It's a line of bash to set Linux to use local time, it's changing a registry key in Windows.
That man's home address?
/dev/lp0Ah yeah that's a bug. Should be a fix in a few days
No, itβs a feature.
Still needs a toggle. What is this? North Korea?
Ahem... I believe you mean BEST KOREA.
Itβs Microslop soβ¦ yeah same thing.
Yes, do as I say!
https://youtu.be/lGYFRzf2Xww vibes
"There's this obscure function in Excel that I know somebody who knows somebody who used it that won't work in LibreOffice Calc"
I mean, you can keep putting up strawmen, but that is not going to convince anyone that Linux is superior.
Excel tables.
No Linux/OSS app can do this (and will likely never). Open Office devs have outright declared they won't.
Or the automated process that export/import data via excel.
Let's see you rebuild all those things, without man hours or errors. Costly errors.
Whenever someone gets on a "just switch" campaign (whether it's something like Linux or Metric), I know they've never had to work on a migration project and seen the challenges, difficulties, and risk.
I use Linux for servers, but I'll be damned if I'm gonna spend time converting my workstation - there's zero value in it for me when I have decades of tools and process. The value proposition just isn't there.
Don't go taking down a fence until you fully understand what it's for.
Can the web version of Excel do tables? I know that it's a lesser version of the desktop app, but if tables was the most advanced feature you need, that could be an option.
OnlyOffice is supposed to be better than OpenOffice for Microsoft documents
Not to mention that LibreOffice has all but replaced OpenOffice as the latter is virtually unmaintained.
Can confirm
Fair enough. Excel is pretty complicated.
You jest but the pain is real. Developing a Windows only software for work in a Windows only environment.
I:
A) Try Wine. No? Ok..
B) Hello windows using friend or relative, can I borrow your PC for 30 min? No? Ok..
C) Hey work IT man, so, I know this is dumb but I need to run a program called pkhex. Yeah it's a hex editor specifically for pokemon hex files. Yeah I can get you anything on your cart. I can get you a legit Mew, even change your OT name from whatever you thought was cool in 1998. Ok so I need admin to download that real fast because I run Fedora, you bring your cart tomorrow and we can do this on lunch.
Typically option B is enough lol.
There is also option D.
https://www.winboat.app/
Huh, neat! Never seen this, how is it?
Itβs VM based, so itβs perfect for niche applications that donβt work on Wine and donβt need GPU acceleration. Thatβs the only shortcoming.
Good to know, thanks!
βI need quickbooks.β Use the web version. βYea but that one sucks.β They all suck. Use something else. βThere is nothing else. My account says quickbooks is all there is.β Heβs wrong. βWell what am I supposed to do? People with money use quick books.β No, people spend money to use quickbooks. You have an accountant. He can use quick books. You can use whatever you want. -continues to bitch about expensive things he hates, dismisses anything free as hippy crap-