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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.
Same across the board.
I stopped buying Skype credit once subscriptions were forced.
Yes, even though I did not have a subscription, watching them do stuff like this every 2 weeks for the last year or more is what finally pushed me off to Linux as well. I got my parents moved over as well though, and they did have a subscription previously.
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).
Bro I use windows for mostly gaming and it forced me to update to 24h2 which broke most games.
Unless you're specifically referring to games with kernal-level anti-cheat, I'm curious as to what games you need Windows for.
Personally only use Windows on my work laptop and even that I am questioning it, might start using my Linux VM for day to day work
Same for me.
Could you clarify on this a bit? I'm genuinely curious what the update did to the games as many use windows for the same.
Have you tried running Office in a bottle?
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.
MAS will also work for many office versions.
What was painful about getting the stuff out of OneDrive?
When I did this it was straight forward.
It's good to see the KDE wallpaper in the background.
What was it you would fallback to use Office for that you couldn’t do on Linux?
It mostly has to do with formatting things: sometimes I'll go to a conference, and they want the slides put on their computer, and powerpoint might display differently than on my Linux laptop, or collaborating on Word documents, where formatting can be somewhat fragile. In the past few conferences though, I got by fine with my laptop, making a PDF of the slides as a backup... So I was confident that things will turn out okay before I pulled the plug.