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From: Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-11,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: The problem with not owning the software
Date: 29 Dec 2024 16:39:41 GMT
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Ant <ant@zimage.comant> wrote:
[...]
> In alt.comp.os.windows-11 rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, 28 Dec 2024 15:07:39 -0500, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
> 
> > > Yeah, it sometimes pains me that it is brought up as often as it is as
> > > some sort of must-have piece of software. It suggests that people don't
> > > do much other than open up Word and Excel.
> 
> > I'm the minority report. I have never used Office. I have no need for it 
> > in my personal life and the company never installed it on the programming 
> > machines. If we get RFPs or other documents in docx or xlsx we use 
> > LibreOffice. For me, that's a read-only thing since my attempts to edit 
> > anything were disasters. 
> 
> What do you use to edit/create documents and spreadsheets with others?
[...]
> I'm surprised you don't do any documents. I have been using word 
> processors since I was in elementary with Apple 2's AppleWorks.

  Like rbowman, I used/used vi/vim for my documents. Have been using it,
ever since it became available (to me). First on Unix/UNIX and later -
mainly privately - also on DOS and Windows. I currently have some 3500
of such documents. And FTR, I'm using vim to compose this very article!
:-)

  In a past working life, I shortly used nroff when vi couldn't yet
format/reformat text (or I didn't know about it or didn't know how to
do it).

  On a temporary assignment, I had to use WordPerfect, because the
organization which hired me was more (only?) interested in how research/
investigation/etc. reports looked, than in their content/substance.
Luckily after a few months, I managed to escape.

  And of course I still get the occasional .doc[x] attachment from
someone who only *needs* a note-taking program, but only *has* (or knows
how to use) Word. Luckily my current Windows 11 seems to grok such
files, at least I didn't have to install LibreOffice since I got it,
over two years ago. Knock on wood.

[...]