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Re:South Korea switching their 3.3M PCs to Linux by mr_toad on Sunday February 16, 2020 @09:30PM (#22345120)
> They learnt to deal with the terrible UX in Windows, no reason they can’t on Linux. :-)

They could, but they won’t.

They want Outlook and Word and Excel, and they’ll exhibit a mule-like stubbornness to budge.

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Re:South Korea switching their 3.3M PCs to Linux by pcr910303 on Sunday February 16, 2020 @09:50PM (#22345214)
> They want Outlook and Word and Excel

I’ve mentioned that we don’t use Word, (BTW, seriously, is there anyone who uses Outlook anymore?) and the dominant word processor used in South Korea had a port to Linux that is fully featured and has a very high compatibility since 2008.

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Re:South Korea switching their 3.3M PCs to Linux by eropple on Sunday February 16, 2020 @11:55PM (#22345694)
> (BTW, seriously, is there anyone who uses Outlook anymore?)

Outlook is still huge amongst professions that have to deal with people a lot. The calendaring is better than online solutions (by a lot) and the plugins, I am told, for stuff like Salesforce are awesome.

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Re:South Korea switching their 3.3M PCs to Linux by GoblinSlayer on Monday February 17, 2020 @07:42AM (#22347259)
>They want Outlook and Word and Excel

They are redesigned every version though, there's nothing fixed to want from them.

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