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I I believe Linux appeals to a specific group of users. Personally, I rely heavily on Microsoft Office. Unfortunately, LibreOffice and OpenOffice don't meet my needs because they often alter document formats when I share files across different platforms.
Oh, boy. Get a better job.
Literally every office job ad in my country wants MSOffice experience. Many also want GSuite even though that's redundant. I've even seen one in the legal sector that wanted WordPerfect. Can't speak for the other guy, but not everyone has an option to "get a better job."
Yeah, that's a lie.
https://ca.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk=4f87b9a36bbb1839
https://ca.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk=061114cdc20ef415
https://ca.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk=4736c4c40c53499b
https://ca.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk=34e18aa739dd2a54
https://ca.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk=3cdb4d0af94558c3
https://ca.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk=46bf61f624a4900b
Top six jobs on Indeed, search query "office assistant" in Calgary, AB. Ctrl+F for "MS Office" or "Microsoft". Can't show you the one that wanted WordPerfect because it expired months ago and I didn't save the link. Not to mention it would dox me.
YeAh, ThAt'S a LiE
Here are the results of searching "Linux sysadmin", none of them requires MS Office experience but they all require Linux experience. Do you understand now why your comment is stupid?
Okay, so firstly, stupid != deceitful. Secondly, there's absolutely no need for insults. Lastly, when a person says "office job" they generally don't mean "Linux sysadmin." They mean someone who writes documents all day or puts numbers into spreadsheets. And in the context of this conversation, it should be obvious that it's referring specifically to those that use word processors or spreadsheet software. Furthermore, that link pulls up a whopping 4 jobs. That is not a good sample size, even if any of them did mention having to use a word processor, spreadsheet software, etc.
But hey, just accuse me of lying and stupidity. Not like there's a person on the other side of your screen or anything.
Yep. 4 is a terrible sample size, I didn't even look at the results since the point I was trying to make was about selection bias, which you seem to understand so I don't know why you even thought posting the previous comment was a good idea.
I'll apologize for calling your comment stupid, though. That was unnecessarily hostile of me and uncalled for.
Well, I wasn't about to go through every single one of those results haha. Search "office assistant" in any city and you'll have a thousand ads to go through. If I knew anything about the Indeed API and was better at scripting, I could probably count every single one that mentioned MS Office or some variety of it (and I'd be willing to bet that most would contain that due to having seen hundreds of those ads over the last few years) but I'm shit at scripting and honestly just cba.
And no worries. I got offended was getting snippy anyways, so I should take my own advice.
You could use PDF
Yeah my Windows system has my Lightroom install and my Fusion 360 install, part of my laziness is that I hear that you can get both to work but I haven't bothered to shift over and make the attempt at getting them to work.
The open source alternatives for those 2 just aren't there for me.
You can get Fusion 365 working but it is a pain and I wouldn't recommend it.
What you could do is setup Windows in a KVM VM with some sort of graphics acceleration. With guest addons it will be like native.