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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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There is a school in Wisconsin that uses Linux (opensource.com)

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

VBA scripts. I have a friend who works in the radio/telcom industry...but ends up doing a bunch of other stuff. This friend makes extensive use of VBA scripts to get the job done. You can't do that on the web version, and you can't do it in Calc.

Word is just for document interchange. Other businesses and clients use Word documents, and they don't display reliably correctly in any other program but Word.

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

VBA scripts are notorious for being security weaknesses but I guess they are still used in some places

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

My friend's response:

Yep, but they make shit so much easier

They took my 2 weeks of turning CSVs into other CSVs into 2 days

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oh, so you should suck up to Microsoft being incompatible with their own standard because they're incompatible with their own stabdard? Is that basically what you're saying? And also, you can use odt in Microsoft Word, which is interoperable with LibreOffice and Google Docs

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago

Oh, so you should suck up to Microsoft being incompatible with their own standard because they’re incompatible with their own stabdard? Is that basically what you’re saying?

I don't use Microsoft Office, but I use Adobe. If the people I collaborate with or I work for use Adobe and need to edit my files, I'm not going to give them something done in Scribus instead of inDesign. That would be doing a bad job and also limiting their choices significantly with who they can go with in the future to edit their files. Same principle applies to Microsoft Office.