• IngeniousRocks (They/She) @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    I don’t ever mean to be a downer but I feel this will hurt users in the long run. Just simy extending an umbilicle to Microsoft’s teat because they can’t be assed to let go and stop suckling. M$O and Adobe CC are some of the worst offenders for SaaS bullshittery.

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      2 days ago

      The thing is, sometimes you need Microsoft not of your own volition but because of bureaucracy. When I was signing a contract recently, the government required me to fill in a office word document and it would not work at all on libre, I had to scramble around the house, went through 3 different computers trying to get any of them to have office working after I just recently uninstalled it from all of them to use libre only, but in the end I had to use a university computer to fill in the doc.

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      2 days ago

      As much as I want to move from them, Excel and Photoshop are too advance compared to any alternative, including both FOSS and commercial one.

      Even Excel Online is not as advance as Excel desktop.

      Casual users can get away from them, not advance user that needs unique feature only available in the software.

      • Ascend910@lemmy.ml
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        2 days ago

        You are gonna love only office. Their spreadsheet work as close to excil as possible.

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          12 hours ago

          I’ve used only office and it’s still not Excel. Like the prior commenter said, even excel online isn’t as good as desktop excel. I actually run a VM for just a few apps, excel being one of them.