The bigger competitor for Word and the rest of the office suite is not Libre or Open Office but Google Docs. It's cross platform and does away with local file storage, which is a security risk and a data loss risk.
Re:Microsoft's “Love” of Linux
by bakuninsbart on Friday November 22, 2019 @06:55AM
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The only thing they NEED to improve is version history comparison. I do not understand why it is so hard to "save" a version of a file before you make your own changes, so that others then can easily see what you changed.
Re:Microsoft's “Love” of Linux
by at-fates-hands on Thursday November 21, 2019 @06:13PM
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Good call.
I haven't used Google Docs in a long time and had forgotten about them.
Yeah, until you encountered complex script and East Asian script.
As a Linux user I still maintain a Windows VM precisely for MS Office. On Linux, WPS Office is much better at handling these scripts though.
Re:Microsoft's “Love” of Linux
by jay_kyburz on Thursday November 21, 2019 @04:27PM
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errr... I would still export it as PDF first. I wouldn't trust something as important as a job application to work perfectly. (I'm a Libre Office user on Windows. )
I would also add in there are other open source options that are compatible and work well with MS Office now. Libre Office and Open Office are two such examples. I can now write my resume in either or and save it in a docx format, send it to a recruiter and then they can open it with MS Word without any issues.