IMO it’s been Adobe really running the Mac vs Windows duopoly for over a decade at this point. If they made their software compatible with Linux people would have virtually no reason to continue using Windows.
Microsoft Office is also strong. It is still the standard in most contexts and they are just very good.
And while the libre alternatives are all excellent there is tiny points of friction, especially when collaborating with MS Office users and they make non MS Office users not want to switch.
Yeah I agree there are weird inconsistencies between formulas in Excel, Libre office and Google Sheets. In Excel Concat and concatenate are the same while in google sheets Concat only works for two strings and concatenante is more than two. In Excel other sheet cells are references like Sheet2!A1 but in Libre Office it’s Sheet2.A1 like why??
Unless half of your coworkers are on Mac then it’s terrible and fails to sync all the time so they go behind your back and start using Google docs with their Gmail.
Most MS office application use can work through browser under linux now…
For my purposes, the only time I’ve had to dust off Windows native Office has been dealing with some of the more “weird” features of presentations that people ask me to work on that aren’t handled in the browser version, and my general feedback is that those features are a bad idea in general and should be avoided.
I wager there’s also some Excel things that might not work in the Web version, but I don’t go that hard with Excel anyway.
IMO it’s been Adobe really running the Mac vs Windows duopoly for over a decade at this point. If they made their software compatible with Linux people would have virtually no reason to continue using Windows.
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Microsoft Office is also strong. It is still the standard in most contexts and they are just very good.
And while the libre alternatives are all excellent there is tiny points of friction, especially when collaborating with MS Office users and they make non MS Office users not want to switch.
Yeah I agree there are weird inconsistencies between formulas in Excel, Libre office and Google Sheets. In Excel Concat and concatenate are the same while in google sheets Concat only works for two strings and concatenante is more than two. In Excel other sheet cells are references like Sheet2!A1 but in Libre Office it’s Sheet2.A1 like why??
In the corpo world, office integration with OneDrive and Teams is pretty nice too.
Unless half of your coworkers are on Mac then it’s terrible and fails to sync all the time so they go behind your back and start using Google docs with their Gmail.
Most MS office application use can work through browser under linux now…
For my purposes, the only time I’ve had to dust off Windows native Office has been dealing with some of the more “weird” features of presentations that people ask me to work on that aren’t handled in the browser version, and my general feedback is that those features are a bad idea in general and should be avoided.
I wager there’s also some Excel things that might not work in the Web version, but I don’t go that hard with Excel anyway.
Adobe is definitely like 60% the reason I’m still sticking to Windows… :/