I actually had a better time with LibreOffice in school.
There were a number of times professors submitted word docs with instructions in tables that didn’t render properly in Word but rendered fine in Libreoffice Writer.
I’ve also had classes that used csv spreadsheets with a non-comma delimiter. It was very easy to switch the delimiter in Calc. But the professor had to resubmit a xlsx for everyone using excel.
You can still acquire non-365 licenses that also come bullshit-free with no AI.
Once those are no longer available, I’m sure I’ll be fully over on Linux/LibreOffice by that time.
Ive been on LibreOffice. No complaints from professors about it so, I’m assuming no one can actually tell I’m using LibreOffice.
non zero chance at least some of them are, too
Trace formatting issues aside, it will show up in other subtle ways such as smaller
*.docxfiles and cleaner doc-to-PDF conversions.I actually had a better time with LibreOffice in school.
There were a number of times professors submitted word docs with instructions in tables that didn’t render properly in Word but rendered fine in Libreoffice Writer.
I’ve also had classes that used csv spreadsheets with a non-comma delimiter. It was very easy to switch the delimiter in Calc. But the professor had to resubmit a xlsx for everyone using excel.