...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.
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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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Hang on…
…are you saying that this is the Year Of Linux On The Desktop? |
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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 |
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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 |
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Fortunately, ArcaOS . . .
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I have to get a new box to run Microsoft Excel
- (crazy)
- (15)
- March 2, 2022, 11:48:58 AM EST
8GB, SSD, AMD APU
- (pwhysall)
- (1)
- March 2, 2022, 01:09:55 PM EST
Ditto on checking online Excel
-NT
- (malraux)
- March 2, 2022, 02:06:08 PM EST
Tiny form factor PCs might have heat issues.
- (Another Scott)
- (1)
- March 2, 2022, 02:48:33 PM EST
Not a thing
- (pwhysall)
- March 2, 2022, 03:13:48 PM EST
If you have a Mac - Microsoft Excel 2021 for Mac.
-NT
- (a6l6e6x)
- March 2, 2022, 10:10:03 PM EST
Have you checked that it can't be edited in LibreOffice (or similar)?
- (CRConrad)
- (8)
- March 3, 2022, 02:39:11 AM EST
Oh, it probably can be
- (pwhysall)
- (7)
- March 3, 2022, 04:16:43 AM EST
Yeah, you're right about the blamage-potential, but wrong about...
- (CRConrad)
- (6)
- March 4, 2022, 03:27:54 AM EST
Spin up a VM, install Windows XP and Office XP, and see how you like it
- (pwhysall)
- (5)
- March 4, 2022, 04:18:12 AM EST
Don't have to, I'll just boot up my old Thinkpad T510.
- (CRConrad)
- (4)
- March 4, 2022, 06:15:43 AM EST
Hang on…
- (pwhysall)
- (2)
- March 4, 2022, 09:52:14 AM EST
And if it is ...
- (drook)
- March 4, 2022, 11:13:03 AM EST
Of course. Aren't they all?
- (CRConrad)
- March 4, 2022, 02:15:39 PM EST
Fortunately, ArcaOS . . .
- (Andrew Grygus)
- March 4, 2022, 11:35:23 AM EST
I dodged the bullet
- (crazy)
- March 5, 2022, 12:20:32 AM EST
