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b3lvedere | 18 days ago

Kind of a weird feeling that in order to get the better Windows 11 experience one requires programs from four operating system versions earlier.

Windows 11 also takes a huge amount of time to get working as i intend. I have to remove a lot of 'features' and heavily optimize some processes. It's stable and it works, but i'm getting more and more annoyed by it that upcoming updates sometimes destroy all my effort.

Kinda wish i could run everything my family wants on Debian. I know i could do that right now, but the wife and kids will never get used to that if they have to use Microsoft products in their working and school life.

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d3Xt3r|18 days ago

> Kinda wish i could run everything my family wants on Debian. I know i could do that right now, but the wife and kids will never get used to that if they have to use Microsoft products in their working and school life.

You won't know until you try. My mum used all versions of Windows from 3.1 till Windows 7. She hated Windows 8, and that's when I decided to switch her to Linux (with XFCE) - and she felt the UI was a lot more familiar to her than Windows 8. I recently showed her a few screenshots of Windows 11, and she finds her current desktop (now on KDE) a lot more familiar than Windows 11. Same with Office, she prefers the older style toolbar of LibreOffice than the ribbon UI of modern versions Office.

So maybe install it on a spare device as a trial and see how they like it?

tracker1|18 days ago

Probably the only good thing about Google Docs becoming so popular in school/education use... All you need is a current Chromium based browser mostly.

The Web versions of Office, err MS 365, err CoPilot App.. (OMG!>!!>) ... aren't so bad to use in a Linux browser either.

wtetzner|17 days ago

> All you need is a current Chromium based browser mostly.

Google Docs works fine for me in Firefox as well.