I will try to translate. In the gif, OP would be the dog and the baked goods Ms. Tomei’s bunghole. I concur.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

I‘m currently considering Softmaker office suite. It supposedly runs well with Windows formats, which I’m hoping is true, as I have to use DOCX and the like heavily in my work.

I‘m old(er), need my PC for work since my livelyhood depends on it, and unfortunately only have a limited amount of fucks to give per day. That made it quite the daunting task to switch OS since I‘m stuck with Windows for over 20 years now.

Got new hardware recently and will take my time to set up Zorin OS while keeping the old Windows machine running in parallel for a while. It is the softest of switches I could think of all in all, and I‘m looking forward to it. Sometimes things take time, especially when people have essentially been indoctrinated with Windows since their early school days.

Judging from your two text, it is you who could learn a thing or two about how to talk to people. You do you, I don’t really care.

At the same time, these people would have the pull to really promote the alternatives. Imagine if a channel with tens of millions of followers announces they are leaving for the Fediverse. Thing is, they are most likely getting a metric fuck-ton of money on Instagram and the like, so I’m not counting on that to happen anytime soon.

Do you really think your friends and family don’t like/love you enough to install an app for you, like Signal, or wouldn’t bother to open any other messenger? Just think about it for a moment. That would be very sad and is probably not true.

There was this CGP Grey episode “You are two” from some time ago which is a great watch, and I truly love the idea of your brain just messing with you.

I’m a freelancer and unfortunately rely heavily on Microsoft. Haven’t had that stance for long, to be honest, but the past few months have been eye-opening. I’m trying to go more European in the future, and Open Source where viable.

It is a little scary I have to admit. I’m getting old enough to have worked with MS products for decades now, and am so used to them. It’s also a challenge to myself to move away and try new things, as I believe this will be a selling point in the near future in my business.

This might be something to write to your favourite creators about. They want know if it isn’t brought to their attention, and I would certainly enjoy it too. Change takes time, but also effort by the early adopters.

A lot of the world server-wise is running on Linux already anyway, Microsoft’s own servers included. For the end user I’d argue it is not about stability but rather UX mostly. I’m not completely tech illiterate, but I prefer something that “just works” without too much fiddling, and Linux definitely isn’t that currently.

On the other hand, a knowledgeable IT department can provide that for the enduser, you just need the knowledgeable people in your IT department and the will (budget) to move away from the current environment, then everything works just fine. But time will tell.

Hi! We joined on the same day for the same reason :D

Edit: Nevermind, the little number next to my account name says I’m wrong. Apparently I have trouble reading a calendar.