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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Finally did it, got my parent on linux. (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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They're in their 60's, finally convinced them.

They say things like "This is the same..."

and I'm like

"Ya because that's Firefox, the only program you use..."

"What was Windows even doing for us?"

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

From my experience, OnlyOffice provides better compatability with MS Office-files (that is, more so than LibreOffice). However, having used Powerpoint quite a lot in my professional life, and using OnlyOffice Presentation to make a slide deck now, that is an area where I unfortunately find it severely lacking. There's also the issue about their license - I am not all that familiar with it, but apparently they are not as free and open as they claim to be.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What ever happened to Open Office? That used to be the defacto replacement to Microsoft Office. I haven't used office tools on a personal computer in over a decade though, so I'm very out of the loop there.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

LibreOffice is as far as I know a continuation of OpenOffice.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Thanks. Can that still be installed on Windows systems?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes indeed!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

W00t!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Holy shit that's a blast from the past lmao.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

For historical info - Oracle bought OpenOffice and started to close it down, so all the developers that worked on it forked it into LibreOffice

Oracle has since given OpenOffice to an open source group, Apache, but the main development still happens on LibreOffice