Comment by MegaDeKay
4 days ago
In my past life, we had a mix of Linux users using LibreOffice and MS Windows using Office. It was indeed at times painful, especially when LO content had to be merged into a Word doc.
But too often I think people just think of Word vs Writer but we're talking the Office experience here. Calc is a poor man's version of Excel: I've found it slow with many rows of data and crash-prone (Office is surprisingly solid). Then there is Visio vs Draw. Use Draw for anything complex and you're going to have a really bad time. Us Engineering folk would put together Visio documents all the time and embed them in lengthy technical documents and proposals. Trying to do this in LO is a road to ruin. The Linux folks would either draw diagrams with sticks and boxes or get somebody in Windows to make something decent in Visio.
What we ended up doing was giving a Windows VM with Office on it for those Linux users that needed to produce documents and the like.
>What we ended up doing was giving a Windows VM with Office on it for those Linux users that needed to produce documents and the like.
and at that point, you might as well just use windows, you aren't getting any advantage out of linux and are spending a bunch of overhead managing it.