I was actually taught how to use spreadsheets in Microsoft Works. Which was the cheaper home alternative to the Office suite, that was good enough to run a small business out of.

Indeed a class of its own, at least since the fall of Lotus.

I use Calc, and it does just fine for my use case. But I know people in finance whose work relies on the powerful advanced features excel has and LO just doesn’t yet.

Funny enough, I haven’t touched a word processor or slide deck program in years.

Sorry, but no. It's awful. Tried it out when I was doing my taxes. Basic shit is just hidden and convoluted it just not possible.

Use PDF instead of Word format.

As someone who lives and works in Silicon Valley, the amount of coworkers and colleagues in my experience in engineering using non-default MacOS configurations is nonexistent. There are things like Asahi Linux (which is an amazing project, don't get me wrong), but let's not pretend that the people who use open source software on MacOS are not fractions of a percent compared to the general userbase.

In fact, my experience working in IT professionally and assisting friends and family personally has only underscored that view - those who were actually using Linux and FOSS software professionally were not on Apple hardware (and knew what went wrong and what assistance was needed). Those who I had to assist with Apple hardware... were different strains of "technically inept" who managed to break their experiences despite using default settings (kind of impressive I suppose).

More power to you - but you are a portion of Apple's userbase that will not receive the same level of support or adoption as the mainstream userbase, and largely not emblematic of the "average MacOS customer".

I do agree with your reasoning though (and I'd probably be much more cheerful in helping someone like you compared to the rest of my IT clientele who used Apple products as-is).

Costco

You going to make it?

When you try, they just laugh. They're not going to verify anything. They do it on purpose. It is their fault.

Oof. Those were typos. I meant LibreOffice ☠️ brainfart

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