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[-] MahnaMahna@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Ugh, I feel you on the work thing. We use the Microsoft suite and although technically there are online versions of the software, it's fucking terrible compared to the desktop version, especially Teams (and sometimes I just flat out can't get Teams to work in the browser since it doesn't play nice with Firefox). And no, I can't just use Libre Office because it will fuck up any previous formatting of word docs, or in the case of Excel there will be functions that aren't supported.

I've just accepted that I need to be my own IT support for anything Linux in most day to day applications. Calling or emailing customer service inevitably gets me the answer that Linux is not supported.

[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

Yep, then all the specialty application that are made, especially for peripherals like scanners.... Forget about it.

You might be able to get it to function at a basic level, but all the settings and customizable features are not going to exist, and you will also be up a creek workout a paddle if you need support, as you've correctly noted.

Linux is a wonderful operating system, and it does what it does very well. The fact is, all the business desktop application software companies stick to Windows because that's what most people have, and most stay with Windows because business app developers don't support anything else. The only time I've known of any users who had something different, it was almost always a Mac, and they always had parallels or some similar windows virtualization software installed because even their mac isn't supported.

It still caused issues, but it mostly worked at least.

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