On Tue, 2026-01-06 at 18:10 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Oh an try to get them to use Libre Office. In 31 years of > doing this, I can only get new users to office suites > to use it. In my technical opinion, Libre Office is > slightly easier to user than M$ Office. SO back to > the "I CAN'T LEARN ANYTHING NEW!!!" problem.
I'm quite harsh when people say, "it's too different to what I'm used to." "Really?! How many times have you had to re-learn some software because the supplier has re-invented it?" As a point in case, I knew someone who'd done some course on how to use Office, but found it utterly inapplicable to the version on her home PC. I read her course notes and compared them to her version, it *was* radically different. Granted that many people do not learn *any* of the features beyond cut and paste, and changing the font. And that's easy to figure out on almost any word processor. But if anybody gives me a word proc file to use, it's almost a given that it'll need cleaning up for having a gazillion overlapping font change instructions, and gaps. And pages with one word left over from a paragraph on the prior page. No leading. Pagination by blank lines, paragraph formatting by blank spaces. No use of headings... I spent ages sanitising someone's document a few years ago, a complex nested list of numbered sections and sub-sections for an organisation's constitution that was all messed up. I'd fail the usual idiot has done a moronic test for AI use, because I actually know how to type and use proper punctuation. And I'm not afraid to tell such morons off like I'm a 1970s school master, I take a "heads will roll" attitude to them. Fortunately I'm not a student being falsely accused of such things. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 (yes, this is the output from uname for this PC when I posted) Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
