A big one for me is Microsoft office (desktop), Libreoffice and other FOSS alternatives just simply don’t come close, and feature wise are 20 years behind. Especially since I basically mastered MS office 2007+'s drawing features, which the FOSS alternatives don’t replicate very well.

And of course Microsoft loves to push Office 365. I don’t pay for that and just use desktop office, but Microsoft prefers you don’t know that you can do this.

And I’m going to get shit on by Lemmy big time for this but while Linux is great and has made vast improvements in recent years, I still use Windows, not only because of MS office, but because a lot of games tend to only support Windows. I know that wine and proton exist but they’re not perfect and don’t feel quite the same as running native.

I wish an operating system existed with a hybridized Linux and clone NT kernel (using code from FOSS Wine and ReactOS of course) so that the numerous back catalog of NT software can run similar to as intended while also interacting with Linux programs better and using a shared environment. Since it would probably become vulnerable to viruses for windows as well, maybe? (my programming knowledge is extremely rusty) an antivirus similar to Windows defender is bundled with the operating system. Hopefully if someone makes such an operating system it can be a Windows killer and would switch immediately

  • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
    21·
    6 days ago

    huh, i much prefer libreoffice to msoffice, i can’t even think of a reason why anyone could prefer msoffice.

    Im a but gobsmacked at the notion.

    what do you use the drawing for?

    • DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz
      5·
      6 days ago

      The only thing I can think of that Word does better, is making equations. LibreOffice works ok, but it’s more clunky. I still use it over Word because it runs much faster on my PC

      • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
        4·
        6 days ago

        memeoffice.

        didn’t think msoffice would be the easiest platform to build memes/diagrams on.

        I actually didn’t even know office could build something that complicated.

        thanks

        • gdog05@lemmy.world
          10·
          6 days ago

          It might be able to do it but it’s absolutely the wrong tool for the job. That’s Adobe Illustrator territory for sure and maybe inkscape can do it (not familiar enough with it to be able to say) but vector art creation tools are what you really want for this kind of thing.

          • thevoidzero@lemmy.world
            2·
            6 days ago

            Problem with MS word is you can’t really put vector images in it externally without it being weird. I think that’s why people are used to drawing it in the software.