This is aimed at students/ex-students that used Linux while studying in college.

I’m asking because I’ll be starting college next year and I don’t know how much Windows-dependency to expect (will probably be studying to become a psychologist, so no technical education).

I’m also curious about how well LibreOffice and Microsoft Office mesh, i.e. can you share and edit documents together with MOffice users if you use LibreOffice?

Any other things to keep in mind when solely using Linux for your studies? Was it ever frustrating for you to work on group projects with shared documents? Anything else? Give me your all.

  • priapus
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    5 months ago

    I’ve used Linux all through college and haven’t had any problems. I never had to use Windows only software for my degree, but I can’t really say what you might need. LibreOffice can mess up the formatting of more complex documents, but will normally be fine. If you’re working in a group project and need to use shared docs you can always use Word or Google Docs online.

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      5 months ago

      @priapus @clark

      I am somewhat agnostic about word processors, although I prefer Apache Open Office, I have LibreOffice on one machine Open Office on another and a somewhat dated version of MS Office running thru wine on an Ubuntustudio laptop.
      Because of this I use .rtf as a lingua franca between them.