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I've been dual-booting Linux and Windows for a while, with Windows as the fall-back option in case I wanted to use Office for something. Now that they tried to trick me into paying a subscription for their AI slop machine, I'm finally, fully out. It was a pain to actually track down and back-up the stuff that was held for ransom in OneDrive, but now it is done.

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[–] derpgon@programming.dev 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What I've done is just bought a second hand key for Office 2014, and it works like a charm. Got it for like $10, and no money went to M$, and it has been working for several years without a problem.

For my personal desktop, at least. For my laptop rocking Linux I've been using LibreOffice without a problem.

[–] Molten_Moron@lemmings.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

MAS will also work for many office versions.

[–] sleepmode@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Going to dump it when the wife's done with school. I was only keeping it for that and one game. So sick of subscriptions and the product isn't even good except for Excel.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I mean, you have to use the heck out Excel to get into features that aren't in free projects like Libreoffice or OnlyOffice as well.

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[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

What was it you would fallback to use Office for that you couldn’t do on Linux?

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[–] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

What was painful about getting the stuff out of OneDrive?

When I did this it was straight forward.

  • Sync to local
  • Move all to new directory (his triggers a mass deletion on OneDrive)
  • Sync to seafile (in my case)
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[–] bokherif@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

Bro I use windows for mostly gaming and it forced me to update to 24h2 which broke most games.

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[–] festus@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago

Just going to mention that if you're okay with non-FOSS office software, I really like Softmaker's suite (their buy-once non-subscription version).

[–] MadBigote@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Have you tried running Office in a bottle?

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