Apparently my love language is installing on the laptops of people I really care about.

Stefano Volpe@social.edu.nl to Linux@lemmy.ml – 165 points –

Apparently my love language is installing @linux on the laptops of people I really care about.

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Id really love to get my mom on Silverblue but she refuses to use Libreoffice.

Office 2023 is a little jank in WINE unfortunately 😞

She'd be such an easy candidate otherwise, she only needs office, email, and Internet and loves the Thinkpad I gave her.

The browser versions aren't too awful, if that's an option.

Its way worse than Libreoffice tbh. They removed random stuff like pagination.

Just tell her to get gud and start using ViM for everything

That would explain why her tea is always cold. She doesn't want to risk losing work by leaving without saving but gets stuck in Insert mode.

I’ve got ZorinOS 17 running on a laptop I share with my partner. Her initial reaction was “what is this?” but now that she’s used to it, she’s been happy.

Silverblue looks quite interesting, I might give it a go in a VM. As long as it kinda looks like Windows it shouldn’t be too hard of a transition

What about onlyoffice? The UI is a lot more modern which is probably the issue right?

The issue I’ve run into is primarily compatibility with existing documents and being able to share it with other in industry. Like it or not, for business in the US, the office suite is pretty much the only document & spreadsheet application you can expect everyone to have.

It’s not fair to ask people who aren’t interested in learning linux to deal with the incompatibilities between Libre/Open office and O365 because “I don’t like Microsoft”. If they’re pushing to move away from MS and understand this, I’d still probably recommend LibreOffice over OpenOffice because moving someone from a well maintained industry standard Microsoft product to a less supported and less compatible Oracle app seems irresponsible.

Edit: The whole second paragraph is about OpenOffice and not OnlyOffice. Please disregard