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Re:Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account duri... by flatiron on Friday February 18, 2022 @03:44PM (#30390817)
It’s hard to beat windows native office. MacOS version stinks and the web version is pretty slow on complicated stuff. That’s why I use windows on my work PC ans WSL for the dev stuff.
Re:Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account duri... by smoldesu on Friday February 18, 2022 @05:27PM (#30391965)
It's not everyone's favorite answer, but LibreOffice works fine for me. I've set a number of documents with it (including my own resume) and it works perfectly fine. It's not the most intuitive program ever made, but it's nothing if not comprehensive.
Re:Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account duri... by amanzi on Friday February 18, 2022 @07:22PM (#30393087)
You're not going to convince hardcore Office users (like me) that LibreOffice is good enough. I try it occasionally on my Linux laptop, and I have nothing good to say about it.
Re:Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account duri... by Kaze404 on Friday February 18, 2022 @08:19PM (#30393491)
That's interesting, I have the opposite perspective. I'm not a power user in the sense that I use it to write documents, but at work we generate docx files from code (not a good idea) and a significant amount of the time we have perfectly fine files that render as we expect on LibreOffice but break unexpectedly on Word. Sometimes it even renders fine on the web version, but still incorrectly in Word itself.

Edit: I should clarify that I don't mean to contradict you. Just thought it would be an interesting perspective to read about.

Re:Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account duri... by flatiron on Friday February 18, 2022 @08:40PM (#30393620)
Personally I deal with word templates and decades old xlsx files. OG office is my only go to and honestly it’s great. I don’t buy office for home so for kids projects it’s great. But not for payday stuff.
Re:Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account duri... by temac on Friday February 18, 2022 @08:43PM (#30393633)
> MacOS version stinks

I have not tried it yet but was thinking I could need it one day; what particularly stinks about it?

Re:Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account duri... by flatiron on Saturday February 19, 2022 @05:29PM (#30401135)
They are two different animals. My old job had office documents to complex that windows vm with office performed better than native macOS.