I’m curious as to what everyone’s reasons are! The Linux desktop has came quite a far ways in the last few years and is improving every day. I’d say for most people, Linux could easily replace Windows as their daily driver nowadays.
I’m dual booting Manjaro/KDE and W10 on my laptop. The only reason to have W10 is MS Office. I’m a scientist and a lot of time I need to accommodate my boomer co-authors who cannot handle Google docs for collaborative manuscript. I daily drive mostly on Linux, but I also have MATLAB installed on windows partition bc I don’t like filthy binary blobs on my Linux.
My workflows has gone pretty wack, I might need to keep the windows partition as an always online work desktop, and get a second pure Linux laptop to access the windows side through Parsec rather than booting on/off. Alternatively, I can fully migrate the windows partition to VM, but VM is also such an ugly bloaty installation.
I have OCD and love to keep my Linux side lean, clean, and free as freedom as I can be. Sadly that necessitates running windows on dualboot
I haven’t used Microsoft’s office suite in years, but I’m pretty sure LibreOffice can open & edit files that are made in Microsoft’s office suite just fine, although I could be completely wrong and just misremembering for something else.
Yes they can, but precise placement of objects don’t carry over even through the same .docx and .pptx files. Like for example, I would make a nice table or equation through Libre, saves as .docx and it would come up mangled when someone try to open it on Word
That’s a shame, it’s always bothered me that there isn’t a open standard for these kinds of files, rather we’re stuck with Microsoft’s undocumented proprietary formats and forced to just work with them.
