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cineticdaffodiltoday at 8:23 AM3 repliesview on HN

Linux would need to be willing to safe the work millions of people put into memorizing excel, word and windows workflows.


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ninjagootoday at 3:09 PM

> Linux would need to be willing to safe the work millions of people put into memorizing excel, word and windows workflows.

It's a fair point. Organizational and personal inertia is a real thing.

Maybe think of it as going through a divorce and entering a new relationship. You do it mostly because you want to, and sometimes you do it because you have to.

OS as a digital spouse analogy? too far-fetched? think of how much time you spend with it in a day :-)

cwillutoday at 10:27 AM

“Linux” needs to do nothing of the sort.

People who want to save their work by moving to a platform without those issues need to be willing to either do the work or pay for it.

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mcswelltoday at 11:40 AM

Libre Office (and a couple others) is pretty close to MsOffice. Not exact, but close.