You make a good case. In my more simple case, I need efficient and smart looking PowerPoints and no foss alternative can beat office 2016. And dozens of programs are windows only. I’ve tinkered with wine/play on Linux before and it just doesn’t work out of the box for the majority of programs.
Reminds me of suicidelinux
On Android, app just updated.
Reading it, it seems like you pay to learn and then actually building it requires much larger amounts of money than expected?
You mean the truth proper?
The squashed o a and e… 😅
Haier is Hai Er in Chinese, just saying.
I tried to use Calc and whatever the PPT one is called and both were incredibly laggy, even when I tweaked the hardware settings. And then there was a bizarre weird thing or two like the insert symbols not working in ribbon view.
And ribbon view didn’t really improve the fast response I need, like being able to type 5cm scaled for huge image, instead I would still need to open the settings and do many clicks for the same result.
So I just stick to that old 2007 office I still use. Oh gosh, did I mention the crashes yet?
I use Pulsar which is pretty good for my needs.
Libre office was alright but tabbed layout was buggy, entering stuff in excel was delayed by 0.5s everytime, the math formula program required some esoteric knowledge, and libredraw messed up pdfs which foxit otherwise opened with precision. I stick to Microsoft office 2007 which does exactly what I expect.
It’s bloatware and adware imo.
My most recent example with EndeavorOS was trying out KDE which I thought looked really smart on the desktop. Then it started glitching. Arch tends to be bleeding edge so that makes sense. But it meant I had to make a new choice of distribution or DE.
But Debian based Ubuntu? On Virtualbox? That seems a bit off. Maybe LTS would provide the stability you need.
I guess because development is decentralised, that you end up with developers working on different packages and when they update one it has a ripple effect on other packages.