Oh, it probably can be

Post #441,063 by pwhysall 3/3/22 4:16:43 AM 3/3/22 4:16:43 AM Reply	Oh, it probably can be But it's almost certainly not worth the effort. It never is. If you can do your Excel shee in LibreOffice, you can almost certainly do it in the Excel web app. But I'm a big believer in not second-guessing the brief. Baz wants to run Excel. The question was about doing Excel stuff and he even literally said "I have to make sure the software matches the creator of this spreadsheet or at least get to a later version". There's risk associated with going off-piste with something like LibreOffice if, at some point in the future, the sheet breaks or produces the wrong result. If wor Bazza has done all the work in Excel, he can simply go 🤷‍♂️. If he's used LibreOffice, then the fickle finger of blame can be pointed at him. Also, LibreOffice is fucking awful to use. It's like being teleported back to 1995.
Post #441,071 by CRConrad 3/4/22 3:27:54 AM 3/4/22 3:27:54 AM Reply	Yeah, you're right about the blamage-potential, but wrong about... ...the "fucking awful to use". When it comes to computer GUIs, I'd love to be teleported back to 1995... Or, OK, say somewhere around 2000-2005. Just before the fucking "Ribbon", as far as Microsoft, specifically, is concerned. -- Christian R. Conrad The Man Who Apparently Still Knows Fucking Everything Mail: Same username as at the top left of this post, at iki.fi
Post #441,074 by pwhysall 3/4/22 4:18:12 AM 3/4/22 4:18:12 AM Reply	Spin up a VM, install Windows XP and Office XP, and see how you like it If you do, bully for you! Also, sucks to be you, because that world is gone.
Post #441,075 by CRConrad 3/4/22 6:15:43 AM 3/4/22 6:15:43 AM Reply	Don't have to, I'll just boot up my old Thinkpad T510. Windows 7 and Office... Uh, can't recall, whatever was current in ~2011, I suppose. (Unfortunately that already had the fucking Ribbon, IIRC.) Even W7 could be persuaded to present almost exactly the good old W95/NT4/W2K interface, so mine of course does. As for "sucks to be you, because that world is gone" -- I'm not so sure. AIUI at least KDE, and possibly a few other Linux DEs, can be set up to look reasonably sane. And worst case, Haiku, ReactOS, Serenity... Or, hey, I hear OS/2 and Amiga are still around in some form! :-) (Though UI-wise that would probably be ReactOS, Serenity, and OS/2 for me; maybe less so Haiku and Amiga.) -- Christian R. Conrad The Man Who Apparently Still Knows Fucking Everything Mail: Same username as at the top left of this post, at iki.fi
Post #441,079 by pwhysall 3/4/22 9:52:14 AM 3/4/22 9:52:14 AM Reply	Hang on… …are you saying that this is the Year Of Linux On The Desktop?
Post #441,083 by drook 3/4/22 11:13:03 AM 3/4/22 11:13:03 AM Reply	And if it is ... If the only reason to run Linux is because you can still make it look like Windows 95, I guess you can call that "winning". -- Drew
Post #441,086 by CRConrad 3/4/22 2:15:39 PM 3/4/22 2:15:39 PM Reply	Of course. Aren't they all? Just saying, if that's how far I'll have to go, then that's how far I'll go. -- Christian R. Conrad The Man Who Apparently Still Knows Fucking Everything Mail: Same username as at the top left of this post, at iki.fi
Post #441,084 by Andrew Grygus 3/4/22 11:35:23 AM 3/4/22 11:35:23 AM Reply	Fortunately, ArcaOS . . . . . still looks just like OS/2 by default.

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