Isn’t just awkward that you use a different app? How do you explain?
No problem and no need to explain. LibreOffice is commonplace at my place of work.
I haven’t really looked into it, but what are the options for VBA macro writing in excel alternatives?
Most of the time I use MarkDown and export as PDF, if I need more complex layouts I’ll use Libre Office
I only use LibreOffice and don’t tell anyone. It has only been a problem once when a client wanted me to use Word so she could keep track of changes. As a freelancer I wasn’t about to go and use Word for one client. I just submitted the work as a PDF and they never brought it up again.
I don’t. I just export to PDF if I need them to see formatting the same.
I will use whatever they will provide me. If i am to use Microsoft products, so be it. Not only that, but I don’t give a flying fuck for the company’s data i work for. They asked for it 🙃
Thanks to the behaviour of the American Government the past year, it has become really easy. Everybody suddenly understand and respect the argument of boycotting american products and software.
Depends on how long you’ve been working. After some amount of time like a year or two you can drop it into a conversation when helping a person “oh, I actually use libre office so I’m not sure where MS put that, let me check” and if they want more info they’ll ask. Sometimes they might be surprised that you can actually do this stuff on Linux.
I was asked by a friend of the family why I had to “mod” everything, “You make it all so it doesn’t work right!”
…because “working right” in this day and age is a privacy nightmare, a security disaster, and relinquishing your rights, duh! Then I asked her how much the lawyer cost to understand what she’s agreeing to in all the EULAs of services she’s signed up for just to make things “work right”.
They’re free to set it up themselves.
Yeah, they don’t bring their stuff around for help anymore. They’re probably afraid I’ll wipe it and install Debian. 🤣 It’s been a long time; I’m an Arch fiend by now.
I would never tell them how I do stuff unprompted. If they ask I’ll vaguely tell them because I suck at lying but no specifics.
You don’t. Enjoy better, faster and more effective software and laugh when their shot breaks.
I don’t.
I practically never need to. I’ll find a way to make things work one way or another.
The better question asked is:
How do they explain to you that they don’t?
It is the superior choice, doesn’t have ads, doesn’t try to sell you shit, it never updates without your permission, it doesn’t spy on you, it doesn’t sell your data, it is the superior choice, and penguins be cute.
