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Thank you Microsoft, for the final push (discuss.tchncs.de)
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I've been dual-booting Linux and Windows for a while, with Windows as the fall-back option in case I wanted to use Office for something. Now that they tried to trick me into paying a subscription for their AI slop machine, I'm finally, fully out. It was a pain to actually track down and back-up the stuff that was held for ransom in OneDrive, but now it is done.

A screenshot of the screen shown after cancelling a Microsoft 365 subscription
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[–] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Depends what you need. Many publishers require certain features from MS Word that are not available or are not as 'compatible' in LO Writer (not that its LO's fault ;), but for most use case I would agree. Things are a bit more complicated in the case of Excel as far as I can understand what I read (edit: I don't use much spreadsheets myself).

I've quit using MS Word a few years ago, fully switching to LO Writer. There are a few issues here and there but nothing that's a deal breaker (and Word had its own issues too), and I must quite like many things in Writer—beside the app not spying on me, I mean ;)

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    Depends on what you need from Excel. All the simple stuff and most of the medium complex stuff is available in Calc. However, there are still many Excel only features where Calc can’t compete. Not a big deal for most people since those tend to be slightly obscure features anyway. If Calc can’t get the job done, I suggest switching to R or GNU Octave. You’ll thank me later.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Out of interest, what sort of features are you referring to that publishers require?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    It can vary a lot depending the publisher, and some will not care at all while others will use, say, tracking features or work collaboratively (they can even be using OneDrive for that, which includes MS Office in its price), or they will require the author to use a specific Word template that they have devised for Word (with the person in charge of the final layout in whatever layout application, in order to streamline or the process and save time on that part of the job), when they aren't that kind of publishers that simply do the final layout directly in Word before sending the final PDF to the printer. Also, as an author, if a publisher has asked you to use MS Word and some specific stylesheet and realize they tried to to be smarter than them... good luck with that, unless they're already one of their best-selling author.

    And that's just what comes to my mind and that I have been witnessing first hand ;)

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