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submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 124 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (14 children)

Counterpoint: advisor said no.

"Just use Word, everyone else does. I have never heard of this latex thing, so must be just some trendy useless overengineered software that does Word's job but worse. Word can track changes just fine, and you can leave comments." proceeds to strikethrough, highlight, and inline comment everything instead of using either of those features "I want to read what you wrote, not fight technology" proceeds to email you three separate times after forgetting to attach v28 about how a graphic looks wrong because Word ate it

[–] Randelung 18 points 7 months ago (5 children)

you can still use word with git. it's versioning first, diffing and merging only where possible. since you probably won't branch you won't need the latter, though.

[–] droans 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Missing diffs is a problem, though.

I don't get how Microsoft owns GitHub yet hasn't figured out any way to actually create a spec that would be git compatible for Excel, Word, and PowerPoint files yet.

[–] Randelung 2 points 7 months ago

Easy, they want you to buy a onedrive subscription.

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