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 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.
Yeah, also Libre Office on mine is kinda buggy. Not unuseable, but enough to make me mad that I can lose some work because Libre is crashing. To be fair to LO people, it is tough to maintain compatibility with different distros, different DEs. As Manjaro follows Arch it could be the fault of bleeding edge repo, or because I use KDE (which is predominantly qt-based), gtk software (including LibreOffice) are famous for being buggier on KDE. For maximum compatibility, there should be some kind of office suite that is based on HTML and you can open on your browser, like GoogleDocs but without the proprietary google shit - but I understand server wise it might be hard to handle for FOSS to provide such service.
