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Linux usage hits an all-time high in Steam Hardware Survey—and AMD processors continue their march against Intel (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 4 points 9 months ago (6 children)

I feel you. Ive been going through this loop over and pver again. Ive landed on the fedora based Universal Blue for this reason. Bluefin for my desktop and bazzite for my gaming PCs. Sometimes you just want your system to be stable and get out of your way and i really appreciate thay about fedora.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    That was the one Distro that appealed to my wife enough for her to allow me to switch her Windows in her work PC. Now she hates to have to go to her windows laptop to do some taxes shit in our country every month because they only allow excel.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Doesn't one of the office alternatives do .xlsx? Or at least use the web version of excel?

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    Only Office and LibreOffice do, I but the macros used by our tax authority completely break there, so she's left with the excel option alone.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Go figure, but the web version of excel should work.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    According to her, it didn't work. I have no idea what macros those are, and in all honesty, I don't care either, as I don't have to do it (I know that's a douche comment, but here we are). As long as I'm not the one hack g to deal with that crap, I'm not even asking. At the end of the day, that's all she uses that laptop for, the rest is either company hosted or self hosted and she can use it all on her phone or tablet when she's out and about or in her PC when I get home the office.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Yes, I've been experimenting with different Linux distros since 2008 and I was pretty skeptical about "Atomic" distros when they first started buzzing around a few years ago.

    However, this past year we've had to make the jump to Linux due to windows 11 shenanigans. But let me tell you. She's got Bazzite and I've had to distro hop different arch distros.

    But let me tell you, I am incredibly jealous of the amount of things that "just work™️" on her setup. Things that I've had to track down on obscure forums. Avoiding footguns and landmines.

    I used to recommend Ubuntu, then it was Linux Mint, and now, I recommend any Atomic distro that fits your purpose.

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