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1725 points taubek | 8 comments | 27 Mar 23 05:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source | bottom
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oliwarner ◴[27 Mar 23 07:25 UTC] No.35323842[source]▶
I left Windows in a hail of Vista bugs, over a decade ago. I've seen it get worse and worse in that time, both in UX rot and anti-consumer "features".

I'm almost impressed with what people willingly put up with.

Not here to eulogize over what I moved to, but I think it's important people consider why they're still using Windows. It's not your friend.

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fxtentacle ◴[27 Mar 23 07:42 UTC] No.35323965[source]▶
Thanks to Valve and the Steam Deck, all games that I care about now run on Linux.

I sadly still need to use Excel in a VM sometimes, because the text import crashes in Wine. But apart from that, this year has finally been the year of the Linux Desktop for me. And 3 months later, I can say that it's been a bliss :)

PopOS feels exceptionally responsive. Looking back, it's hard to justify why Windows was feeling so sluggish on a PCI5 NVME with 64GB RAM and high-end GPU...

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1. sofixa ◴[27 Mar 23 08:19 UTC] No.35324200[source]▶
> I sadly still need to use Excel in a VM sometimes, because the text import crashes in Wine.

Wouldn't Excel Online be enough to do the trick? It's supposedly feature complete.

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2. wizzwizz4 ◴[27 Mar 23 08:27 UTC] No.35324258[source]▶
It's far from feature-complete. If Excel Online is good enough for you, the faster, more stable LibreOffice Calc is good enough for you.

People use Microsoft Excel for the stuff that just nothing else does.

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3. dagw ◴[27 Mar 23 08:32 UTC] No.35324285[source]▶
It's supposedly feature complete.

It is not. For one thing it is missing macros, power pivot, many solvers and support for third-party add-ons. It also screws up some visual things like text placement and the like.

4. sandworm101 ◴[27 Mar 23 10:37 UTC] No.35324974[source]▶
Or the stuff that no other software wants to do. Macros that can upload your financial records to a Latvian server after a single click in an email? Nobody else wants to do that.
5. thesuitonym ◴[27 Mar 23 14:06 UTC] No.35326818[source]▶
Don't try to understand the mind of a chronic Excel user: Their minds are as unknowable as an octopus' mind.
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6. mywittyname ◴[27 Mar 23 15:08 UTC] No.35327685[source]▶
I think it's more that Excel is incredibly capable. People who reach the status of Excel Power User are akin to F1 Drivers who need every seemingly absurd capability found on their steering wheels.
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7. thesuitonym ◴[27 Mar 23 16:10 UTC] No.35328464{3}[source]▶
Oh for sure, people use Excel to make the world go round. But for plebs like me, trying to understand it is just a path to madness.
8. rrrrrrrrrrrryan ◴[27 Mar 23 17:19 UTC] No.35329424{3}[source]▶
Excel is not tremendously capable, but near-infinitely flexible.

It's a strange amorphous organism that can be coaxed into doing almost anything, if poorly.