I’m here because it’s eventually going to be the better alternative.

FOSS by its nature, will keep on improving. And proprietary bloatware, by its nature, will only gonna get worse.

  • heimur@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    That’s really cool—thanks for the insight! I might have to look into that one day. I’m already using three hard drives, and nothing would prevent me from having Linux on one of them. One last question if you don’t mind, how do you handle spreadsheets? I have to admit I’m quite experienced (read: locked in) with Microsoft Excel, which I do use for personal things regularly. Do you use Open Office (which has never grown on me), Google Sheets, something else? I guess that could also be a case of booting up Windows but it feels a bit cumbersome just for that.

    • necrxfagivs@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 year ago

      Also, you can always try Linux first in a Virtual Machine (for example VirtualBox) to get a feeling of it without altering your hard drives, I started that way!

      Regarding spreadsheets, I use LibreOffice Calc. Is not as feature rich as Excel but for me it gets the job done. I’m not sure if it works, but maybe you can set up a Windows Virtual Machine in Linux to use excel in it.