Office Suite Recommendations For Private Use
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Yup, it's covered up above. Oracle bought OpenOffice, did some terrible stuff with it and all the key people left to fork the product over to LibreOffice. LibreOffice effectively totally replaced OpenOffice. Oracle realized what they had done too late and eventually donated OpenOffice to Apache who now maintain it. So OpenOffice is good again, but it already lost its market to LibreOffice.
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I recommend LibreOffice on all home user machines. I never recommend they purchase MS Office.
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@JaredBusch said:
I recommend LibreOffice on all home user machines. I never recommend they purchase MS Office.
I'm sure that there is a case where I would recommend MS Office for home users. I just haven't run into that scenario yet. But I don't doubt that it is out there.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@JaredBusch said:
I recommend LibreOffice on all home user machines. I never recommend they purchase MS Office.
I'm sure that there is a case where I would recommend MS Office for home users. I just haven't run into that scenario yet. But I don't doubt that it is out there.
I tell college kids to just use their Office 365 rights if they have nothing. But home users I flat tell them to just use LivreOffice.
Of note, I refuse to support home users. So telling them is as much as I will do.
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Same here. No home user support. I pretty much tell people...
- Chomebook / Chromebox / iPad unless you need more than that will do.
- Linux Mint and LibreOffice unless you are gaming...
- Windows 10 and Libreoffice if gaming.
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Why do so many home users need an office suite at all? I mean I realize that they tend to and I know why I always have, but for normal home users it feels like a strange thing for them to actually use. What are people generally doing with it?
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@scottalanmiller said:
Why do so many home users need an office suite at all? I mean I realize that they tend to and I know why I always have, but for normal home users it feels like a strange thing for them to actually use. What are people generally doing with it?
School Papers in Word, Personal Budgets in Excel... Home Loan Caculations (also in Excel)...
Those are the first ones that come to mind.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Why do so many home users need an office suite at all? I mean I realize that they tend to and I know why I always have, but for normal home users it feels like a strange thing for them to actually use. What are people generally doing with it?
Lots of students need it. It's almost a requirement.
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I know my son's girlfriend her college requires it. and specifically states that OO, google docks and others are not allowed.
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@Minion-Queen said:
I know my son's girlfriend her college requires it. and specifically states that OO, google docks and others are not allowed.
Not that they would have any means of knowing what was used. RIT "requires" Word yet doesn't accept Word files. It's a bit of a problem that colleges don't even know the technology that they require.
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@dafyre said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Why do so many home users need an office suite at all? I mean I realize that they tend to and I know why I always have, but for normal home users it feels like a strange thing for them to actually use. What are people generally doing with it?
School Papers in Word, Personal Budgets in Excel... Home Loan Caculations (also in Excel)...
Those are the first ones that come to mind.
Outside of school, though, do any of us know non-IT people using Excel for budgets?
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@scottalanmiller said:
Why do so many home users need an office suite at all? I mean I realize that they tend to and I know why I always have, but for normal home users it feels like a strange thing for them to actually use. What are people generally doing with it?
In Mexico, most people think their computer is incomplete if they don't have an office suite installed. They easily spend 98% of their time using only a web browser but since many people down here pirate software, especially MS Office, why not have it installed. They actually believe its free.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Outside of school, though, do any of us know non-IT people using Excel for budgets?
Also for lists, things like that.
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@BRRABill said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Outside of school, though, do any of us know non-IT people using Excel for budgets?
Also for lists, things like that.
Yeah many people could use something like Evernote or Onenote, but they still keep track of stuff using excel spreadsheets or word documents.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@dafyre said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Why do so many home users need an office suite at all? I mean I realize that they tend to and I know why I always have, but for normal home users it feels like a strange thing for them to actually use. What are people generally doing with it?
School Papers in Word, Personal Budgets in Excel... Home Loan Caculations (also in Excel)...
Those are the first ones that come to mind.
Outside of school, though, do any of us know non-IT people using Excel for budgets?
Yea, I actually do, lol. Been trying to get him into ClearCheckbook for years.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@dafyre said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Why do so many home users need an office suite at all? I mean I realize that they tend to and I know why I always have, but for normal home users it feels like a strange thing for them to actually use. What are people generally doing with it?
School Papers in Word, Personal Budgets in Excel... Home Loan Caculations (also in Excel)...
Those are the first ones that come to mind.
Outside of school, though, do any of us know non-IT people using Excel for budgets?
I was a project engineer for a heavy highway company, and one of the other engineers did all of his home budgets in Excel. That's the only person I know of though.
I just prefer to use accounting software though.
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@johnhooks said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@dafyre said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Why do so many home users need an office suite at all? I mean I realize that they tend to and I know why I always have, but for normal home users it feels like a strange thing for them to actually use. What are people generally doing with it?
School Papers in Word, Personal Budgets in Excel... Home Loan Caculations (also in Excel)...
Those are the first ones that come to mind.
Outside of school, though, do any of us know non-IT people using Excel for budgets?
I was a project engineer for a heavy highway company, and one of the other engineers did all of his home budgets in Excel. That's the only person I know of though.
I just prefer to use accounting software though.
My dad has been using excel for his budgets for years
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I used Excel for budgets and things, way before being involved in IT.
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@Romo said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Why do so many home users need an office suite at all? I mean I realize that they tend to and I know why I always have, but for normal home users it feels like a strange thing for them to actually use. What are people generally doing with it?
In Mexico, most people think their computer is incomplete if they don't have an office suite installed. They easily spend 98% of their time using only a web browser but since many people down here pirate software, especially MS Office, why not have it installed. They actually believe its free.
Americans mostly think that too.
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@BRRABill said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Outside of school, though, do any of us know non-IT people using Excel for budgets?
Also for lists, things like that.
I never see non-tech people using tools like Excel for that, though. Maybe accountants.
