Ha, I bet that title got your attention.
The truth is, just about all my computers I run at my house are Linux. You'll find few people who dislike using Windows more than me.
But, having said that. We do live in a Windows world. Everyone I know, and a lot of people I work with tend to use Microsoft Windows.
For some reason, they think they have to. Well, in some cases it's company policy and they really do have to. But for me, and hopefully
you, that isn't true.
Usually I write command tutorials, but this isn't really a tutorial, but rather a demonstration of how you can get by without Windows.
Microsoft Office, most of you are probably familiar with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, EdgeBrowser, VisualStudio and other Microsoft
applications. While Linux doesn't exactly have all of these, Linux has some very close applications that are generally, I would say about 97% percent compatible with Microsoft office.
I'm using KDE, so how do we find these applications, most distro's out them in the same place.
LibreOfficeWriter - This looks a lot like Microsoft Word, and you can actually save files to recent Word doc and dox format files. You can read your co-workers word files, edit them, or write them to send to them.
That looks pretty familiar. If you can use Microsoft Word, you can use this.
LibreOffice Calc - This looks like Microsoft Excel, and again you can import, edit and export excel files back and forth between Linux and Windows. You have the option to save these as files compatible with the newer version of Excel.
I'm not really going to teach you how to use Word, Excel or PowerPoint, I just want to let you know there are Linux alternatives.
How about LibreOffice Impress - It looks like PowerPoint.
Again, you can import, edit and export Microsoft PowerPoint (.ppt) files. They will work on your friend's Windows computers with MS Office.
How about LibreOffice Draw - It looks a little like Visio.
What if you need to use the Microsoft Edge browser. I'm article writing this article using it right now. You can download it as either a .deb or .rpm package.
coPilot even works in the Linux version.
What about Microsoft Teams, my workplace uses this quite a bit, it's how we talk to each other most of the time and have video calls. It works with my linux webcam, microphone, and speakers. I won't actually show chat session, as they have proprietary information, but here's a screen shot.
How about VisualStudio, maybe you're a developer than like to use the Microsoft developer IDE. Well that can be installed on Linux also.
So, there you have it. All of these run native without using a VirtualMachine, and even without using Wine.
The truth is, just about all my computers I run at my house are Linux. You'll find few people who dislike using Windows more than me.
But, having said that. We do live in a Windows world. Everyone I know, and a lot of people I work with tend to use Microsoft Windows.
For some reason, they think they have to. Well, in some cases it's company policy and they really do have to. But for me, and hopefully
you, that isn't true.
Usually I write command tutorials, but this isn't really a tutorial, but rather a demonstration of how you can get by without Windows.
Microsoft Office, most of you are probably familiar with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, EdgeBrowser, VisualStudio and other Microsoft
applications. While Linux doesn't exactly have all of these, Linux has some very close applications that are generally, I would say about 97% percent compatible with Microsoft office.
I'm using KDE, so how do we find these applications, most distro's out them in the same place.
LibreOfficeWriter - This looks a lot like Microsoft Word, and you can actually save files to recent Word doc and dox format files. You can read your co-workers word files, edit them, or write them to send to them.
That looks pretty familiar. If you can use Microsoft Word, you can use this.
LibreOffice Calc - This looks like Microsoft Excel, and again you can import, edit and export excel files back and forth between Linux and Windows. You have the option to save these as files compatible with the newer version of Excel.
I'm not really going to teach you how to use Word, Excel or PowerPoint, I just want to let you know there are Linux alternatives.
How about LibreOffice Impress - It looks like PowerPoint.
Again, you can import, edit and export Microsoft PowerPoint (.ppt) files. They will work on your friend's Windows computers with MS Office.
How about LibreOffice Draw - It looks a little like Visio.
What if you need to use the Microsoft Edge browser. I'm article writing this article using it right now. You can download it as either a .deb or .rpm package.
coPilot even works in the Linux version.
What about Microsoft Teams, my workplace uses this quite a bit, it's how we talk to each other most of the time and have video calls. It works with my linux webcam, microphone, and speakers. I won't actually show chat session, as they have proprietary information, but here's a screen shot.
How about VisualStudio, maybe you're a developer than like to use the Microsoft developer IDE. Well that can be installed on Linux also.
So, there you have it. All of these run native without using a VirtualMachine, and even without using Wine.
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