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Re:I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple by smorgusofborg on Thursday August 26, 2021 @06:24PM (#28321776)
Google sheets with JavaScript seems to be far more useful doing business automation tasks in small companies.

In my world, Office is only used when you are consulting to companies where most data is for monthly meetings made of people that don't really care.

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Re:I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple by cascom on Thursday August 26, 2021 @09:15PM (#28323208)
95% of the small businesses I’ve interacted with don’t have someone that knows JavaScript let alone are automating with JavaScript
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Re:I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple by smorgusofborg on Saturday August 28, 2021 @07:04AM (#28337152)
I'd agree, but I actually know two self taught programmers who started with Google sheets, then added a little gscript.. The same can and does happen with Excel but using python compatibility is problematic and VB isn't as quickly transferable to working with any web API, etc.
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