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I think most of the complaints are that Microsoft Office doesn't work. Which is true. The web version of Microsoft Office is honestly kinda terrible.
And no, people don't want to use a product that does the same thing as Microsoft Office, they want to use a product called "Microsoft Office". No, it's not logical, and doesn't make any sense at all but it's how people are.
The only sense it makes is that M$ hasn't followed the spec, and so things done in office display fine in say libreOffice, but not the other way around. So if your company is willing to transition, but everyone you deal with outside the company is still on Office, there's a bit of a communication issue. That's M$'s biggest strength, homogenous work environments.
That's why my business only uses pure, crisp .txt files. If I can't open it in notepad, I don't want it!
I have unironically been preaching the powers of text and JSON, and have some converts. Universal compatibility is great.
With markdown or asciidoctor or restext or ... you get both worlds.
This needs to become illegal and bear a bankruptcy inducing fine if repeatedly done.
We need to get rid of these monopolists
I installed a Windows 11 update. Office no longer worked. Office refused to re-install despite trying a huge number of things. It literally refuses to install. Tried their help tool which even does removal of old references in the system. Failed 5 times.
Tried using the web version for a simple thing. First localization struggle which doesnβt carry across sessions. Excel column formatted to number. Then to currency. Then to general. Autosum shows #Div!0 still. Tried seeing if the AI could help. Have to re-login. (Using Mozilla this whole time btw). After re-login, ai tool says stop using private mode. Iβm notβ¦
Literally trying to do the simplest autosum on about 25 lines and it canβt function.
Installed LibreOffice. No problem with βExcelβ.
Iβm really not exaggerating. I saw online a similar issue and the guy had to reinstall the entire OS to get office to work again π€¨
We recently got hdr support tho
HDR works. On KDE Wayland and in games only with Gamescope, but we are getting there. And there is the Steam Deck of course.
The funniest thing is, people say Linux is not ready, cause [insert feature] doesn't work. The problem is said feature doesn't work on Windows either.
For example pausing/resuming playback across multiple appliacations using media keys. It's not perfect on Linux (not every app uses MPRIS), but it's not great on Winodws either
HDR is awesome if you have the right hardware. I've never seen a movie look so good. Someone needs to get HDR working.
It works in KDE + Wayland.. mostly.. for applications that support it.. and there was this update that ruined my color profile for a while but they fixed that now!
You can get both on Linux. KDE Plasma 6 with Wayland supports HDR, and you can even run some Adobe apps through Wine (Photoshop on Linux, Illustrator on Linux).
Using Adobe on Linux is a sacrilege. Screw that company.
photoshop, illustrator, etc are genuinely good programs though. the 'linux alternatives' just arent usually as powerful or easy to use.
this is coming from a linux and foss fanatic, btw. i dont use adobe, but i probably would if i was in a creative industry
I actually do use acrobat for legal document work
It good for adding signatures and making changes to pdf format schtuff
what do you use for illegal documents?
Adobe Acrobat works for me using Bottles/Wine. Pirated and old version of course
From my experience in Linux:
hdr support is coming tho
steamos already has it iirc (well, specifically gamescope)
kde 6 has experimental hdr support with wayland session
cosmic de devs promised hdr support in the first public stable release
what i really miss is passkeys (specifically, using tpm2 to store them like windows hello does)
What I want from an OS:
Free, or a one time fee
Tells the date and time
Has a folder system that is indexed and easily searched.
Supports Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suite, and Steam.
That's it. Genuinely cannot think of any reason I would ever want my computer OS to do anything more than that.
How 'bout "not spy on you?" That's a big one for me personally.
Why Microsoft office? Who not just "office"? Libre Office is the same
The biggest problem with Linux (other than the whole "most people give up the second they see a terminal" thing) is software availability, which will hopefully improve as Linux gains market share.
I'm really glad DaVinci Resolve exists to fill the void of a proper video editor too, Kdenlive just ain't it for me.
Is fractional scaling still ass in Linux? I tried manjaro, elementary os, and Linux Mint a couple of years ago and that bugged me the most.
My personal grievances are using a laptop with ubuntu. No wireless casting of display to tv, no good smart phone as a mouse/keyboard control, the screen is sometimes sideways for no reason.
But Linux and stuff is interesting still. I'm just not ready for it as a daily driver.
KDE connect is pretty great right now. I use it as a remote all the time and even wirelessly transfer files between devicss.
I am wondering how many people give up because their exact program isn't on there.
I get having to use Adobe software if you are an industry professional, but I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about people who don't want to change because qbittorrent is not the same as utorrent. Or peazip is different than 7zip.
I can forgive the lack of support. That comes with time and adoption.
What makes it bad for me is how buggy every single DE is.
Pirate acrobat