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I Think Ubuntu 23.10 is Making a Mistake…
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this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2023
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This article is strange... The author uses "being able to open Microsoft Office documents" as a common example of what an OS that claims to be easy to use should be able to do. Then says...
No default installation of Microsoft Windows EVER opened Microsoft Office documents. If this was a simple oversight in the write-up it'd be fine, but the point is hammered over and over again.
I don't have an opinion about Ubuntu including or not including more software in the default installation (my guess is it became too big to fit on a DVD?) but this article failed to make it's point to me by making a comparison to Windows that isn't true.
Also...
Is this supposed to be a cocky joke? I can't tell. What metric of "most popular" is the author using?
Officially it's called the "Microsoft Store" but I don't think anyone really calls it that (Same with the "Windows Explorer" until they renamed it to "File Explorer" as everyone has been calling it)