• Primarily0617@kbin.social
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    1 year ago
    • Giving effective error codes is the opposite of unhelpful
    • Users who can’t figure out the underlying logic behind a GUI aren’t exactly going to thrive in a CLI environment
    • The dominance of Office is because it’s better than its competitors, and because getting businesses to change literally anything they do is near impossible. SPSS isn’t even a Microsoft product.
    • Troubleshooting on Linux certainly never involves “edit this root-owned file buried 6 layers deep in a cubby hole you never knew existed”, and it never involves “run this .sh script lol”.

    This is an absolutely insane take

    • Hot Saucerman@lemmy.ml
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      The dominance of Office is because it’s better than its competitors, and because getting businesses to change literally anything they do is near impossible. SPSS isn’t even a Microsoft product.

      Also, because of the whole Open Office clusterfuck. People still download that shit not realizing it hasn’t been supported in years and haven’t heard of Libre Office. It leaves them thinking FOSS sucks because of a bad experience.

      Most people who can’t afford Microsoft Office just use Google Docs anyway.