He gets out of Windows! 😀👍

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      “There’s this obscure function in Excel that I know somebody who knows somebody who used it that won’t work in LibreOffice Calc”

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        I mean, you can keep putting up strawmen, but that is not going to convince anyone that Linux is superior.

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      “They told me to type words into a black screen with green letters, and the mere suggestion burned down my house and killed my family.”

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      Excel tables.

      No Linux/OSS app can do this (and will likely never). Open Office devs have outright declared they won’t.

      Or the automated process that export/import data via excel.

      Let’s see you rebuild all those things, without man hours or errors. Costly errors.

      Whenever someone gets on a “just switch” campaign (whether it’s something like Linux or Metric), I know they’ve never had to work on a migration project and seen the challenges, difficulties, and risk.

      I use Linux for servers, but I’ll be damned if I’m gonna spend time converting my workstation - there’s zero value in it for me when I have decades of tools and process. The value proposition just isn’t there.

      Don’t go taking down a fence until you fully understand what it’s for.