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Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

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Post by lousken »

indigo945 wrote: post #18
baq wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> LibreOffice is an okay office suite writer, perhaps. calc, not even close - google sheets is unfortunately better in almost every way, and google sheets aren't great either.

Writer is awful too. It will randomly mess up formatting, especially in tables. Also in tables, it will insist to try and parse cell values like Calc would (breaking numbers and dates), even though Writer doesn't even provide a way to run calculations on those numbers anyway.

Word is awful too, it messes up formatting, especially when pasting images. Good luck writing anything longer than couple pages. Hasn't been solved in 20 years. Have stopped using word 2 years ago but I am gonna assume it's still an issue

Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

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Post by drumhead »

baq wrote: post #7
breve wrote: post #2

The solution is to run Linux. KDE is a good desktop environment: https://kde.org/ 90% of Windows games run on Linux: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45736925 LibreOffice is an okay office suite (good enough for my purposes): https://www.libreoffice.org/ GIMP is a good image editor: https://www.gimp.org/ VLC is a good media player: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/

> LibreOffice is an okay office suite writer, perhaps. calc, not even close - google sheets is unfortunately better in almost every way, and google sheets aren't great either.

If you're a finance professional then there's no alternative to Excel. But otherwise Libre office calc is perfectly fine.

Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

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Post by lousken »

haritha-j wrote: post #69
breve wrote: post #2

The solution is to run Linux. KDE is a good desktop environment: https://kde.org/ 90% of Windows games run on Linux: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45736925 LibreOffice is an okay office suite (good enough for my purposes): https://www.libreoffice.org/ GIMP is a good image editor: https://www.gimp.org/ VLC is a good media player: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/

VLC is a GREAT media player

Outdated ffmpeg, good for dated formats, not good for new stuff

Players like mpv are way better unless you want to use nightly build of v4

Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

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Post by naikrovek »

The number of Linux fanboys coming out of the woodwork to complain about Windows (and to provide anecdotes about Windows which are clearly exaggerated) is very high.

Please read the Linux Advocacy HOW-TO.

Shitting on Windows and MacOS does not make you look authoritative, honest, or credible. It makes you look like you have a very strong opinion and shut off from anything that does not conform to your opinion.

Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

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Post by lousken »

naikrovek wrote: post #65
breve wrote: post #2

The solution is to run Linux. KDE is a good desktop environment: https://kde.org/ 90% of Windows games run on Linux: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45736925 LibreOffice is an okay office suite (good enough for my purposes): https://www.libreoffice.org/ GIMP is a good image editor: https://www.gimp.org/ VLC is a good media player: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/

> The solution is to run Linux. that is never the solution. that is the workaround. workarounds are not solutions.

correct, the solution is to fully switch and use the native software there not wine

Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

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Post by lousken »

drumhead wrote: post #82
baq wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> LibreOffice is an okay office suite writer, perhaps. calc, not even close - google sheets is unfortunately better in almost every way, and google sheets aren't great either.

If you're a finance professional then there's no alternative to Excel. But otherwise Libre office calc is perfectly fine.

windows - if you need kernel anticheats, excel or CAD

mac - if you need battery

Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

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Post by mikkupikku »

lousken wrote: post #84
haritha-j wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

VLC is a GREAT media player

Outdated ffmpeg, good for dated formats, not good for new stuff Players like mpv are way better unless you want to use nightly build of v4

mpv is my choice by a wide margin, but I still recommend VLC to most people because it has the sort of GUI more people are comfortable with.

Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

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Post by chithanh »

yehat wrote: post #35
aquir wrote: post #10

The best time to buy a MacBook Air (or Pro) or a Mac mini! Much less BS and you take it out of the box and use it within 5 minutes.

Exactly, with the caveat I'm buying very cheap pre-M1 Mac to put Linux on it. Works well.

The later Intel Macs with T1/T2 chip also come with a number of caveats on Linux. Don't expect those to work out of the box with standard Linux distros.

Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

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Post by antegamisou »

wiseowise wrote: post #63
yehat wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because there're no russian developers almost everywhere?

There's a difference between having Russian devs and being made by a Russian company that supports war. OnlyOffice is made by a Russian company that doesn't condemn war of aggression that Russia wages against Ukraine. https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1j7zlf2/onlyoffi...

Thank God all other non-Russian companies not only condemn various atrocities around the globe but even support the affected countries being liberated by developing the high-tech armies of the good guys, right?!
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