On Mon, 14 Jul 2025 13:39:22 -0400, Cousin Ricky wrote:

> On 2025-07-14 12:54 (-4), Jim Henderson wrote:
>>   My main system now has never
>> seen a local Windows installation (only in VMs for the rare times I
>> need something very Windows-specific, like working on a presentation
>> with a Powerpoint template that Libreoffice just won't work with).
> 
> PowerPoint.  In the past few years, I've had to deal with PowerPoint for
> the first time since the 1990s, and I can't blame LibreOffice for not
> wanting to waste time with it.  PowerPoint has become a piece of shit!
> It's alpha-quality software that I can't believe even Microsoft let out
> the door.

Yeah, I really didn't want to use it, but I was asked to give a 
presentation to an organization, and that was the template they gave me.  
It really didn't work at all in LibreOffice, so that was my only option if 
I was going to present.

It worked OK.  I would have preferred Google Slides (which also wouldn't 
open the template properly) or LibreOffice.  Even Microsoft doesn't 
understand their own document formats - they tried to create ooxml 
converters themselves, and couldn't do so successfully.

The entire file format needs to be thrown in the trash, IMO.  Same for 
Word and Excel.

I've got a VM with the suite installed on Win 11 for just those 
circumstances when I have to have it.  But after exclusively using Linux 
on the desktop for over 20 years, I find the situations where I absolutely 
have to use Windows (or MS software at all) to be few and far between.

I'd honestly prefer to use a Mac (which I did for work for almost 10 
years) over Windows.
-- 
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and 
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

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