• highball@lemmy.world
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    24 hours ago

    Probably just the recent converts that are still 1 foot in and 1 foot out. I don’t keep a Windows VM. If something ever came up over the years, I have to decide if it’s worth setting up a VM. I think even 3 years back, I was able to update my PS5 controller loading up the update tool in WINE (Bottles). Didn’t even need a Windows VM then.

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      14 hours ago

      There are a lot of cases where windows is preferable or easier to deal with, I think just nuking it is more common with recent converts (I lolled a bit at this turn of phrase). You probably can do everything with wine + vm, bit I just can’t be bothered with passtrough and shit for the latter and update problems and requirement for 32-bit libraries of the former.

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      20 hours ago

      Is there a good word editor on Linux? Because libre office qt lags crazy on plasma wayland, doesn’t have auto lists, or horizontal line, requires an extra package for spell check, and OnlyOffice is missing basic formatting, like horizontal lines, has memory leak issues too, and doesn’t even allow selecting multiple words at a time. Srsly double clicking selects a word, but dragging unselects it.

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          6 hours ago

          There’s literally open issues about the lag, im talking about. And even if that didn’t exist. It’s just bad. It’s not intuitive, it doesn’t have any of the convenience features that MS word has.

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            6 hours ago

            It’s just bad. It’s not intuitive, it doesn’t have any of the convenience features that MS word has.

            Maybe, maybe not.

            The last version ow MS Word I used was Word 2.0c. I quit using it because it was completely broken whenever the file got a bit large. I switched to Linux at that time and used office suites on that platform (that was before libre/open office, even before StarOffice I think, I ran Applix at the time), none of them I’ve ever had issues with.

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        16 hours ago

        Because libre office qt lags crazy on plasma wayland

        Ok, you’ve got something going on with your system. If LibreOffice and VMs are lagging on your system then something isn’t right.

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        17 hours ago

        You probably want to ask a Pro Office user. I’ve just used Libre Office. Worked fine for my papers in school and edits my resume just fine.

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        19 hours ago

        I just use Typst for everything these days, but if you really want a gui thing there’s always the web version of google docs and ms office

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          6 hours ago

          Google docs and word online dont have many advanced features unfortunately.