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.

  • RmDebArc_5English
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    4 months ago

    Last time I tried MS office is worse at opening odfs than Libreoffice is at opening docx created in MS office, but you can save as doc from Libreoffice which also has problems, but way less

    • 🏳️‍🌈🜏Technomancer🜏🏳️‍🌈@mstdn.social
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      4 months ago

      @RmDebArc_5 , I guess I was right to not make a strong presumption. I know compatibility is important, regardless of any other feature priority, but it just seems silly at this point to pay for document software for me. I used OpenOffice/LibreOffice my whole life. Worked well enough for me in University, in the late 2000s early 2010s for my engineering degree.