The world was always foobar, and is a lot better now then it used to be. What's important is to not kid ourselves we live in the best of all possible worlds and accept the present as normal. Things can always be better.
Use LibreOffice on Windows. Microsoft Office used to come bundled with Windows, as an office suite. Now it's a subscription product. This is a bad decision; shows how Microsoft can't keep it up together. Even if it had been one-time purchase with LTS updates and everything, just like it used to, one could possible think of buying it. But, $100/year for personal use?? What's so great about MS Office that LibreOffice can't do?? Get LibreOffice, even if you use Windows.
> Work with spreadsheets more complicated than two cells.
I work with spreadsheets made of more than two cells with LibreOffice. The lack of dark patterns to trick me into cloud saving, ribbon with random buttons everywhere and animations makes everything feel much more comfortable to use.
Data linking a CSV in Excel opens a UI where it seems one can do many conversions and adjustments. It looks very powerful but it also makes it slow to link a CSV file. In LibreOffice it's less powerful but so much faster.
>> What's so great about MS Office that LibreOffice can't do??
> Work with spreadsheets more complicated than two cells.
I use both daily. You're misrepresenting what LibreOffice can do; 99% of the people I see using excel are using the exact same 20% of its capabilities.
Quick-n-Dirty database that they can update during sales meetings and create charts from. You think another spreadsheet can't do that?
The thing with this administration is that they can play it very dirty behind the curtains (life-threatening dirty, to oneself, family, and friends), which is why I think the "leaders" of various orgs and countries are bending the knee.
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