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How do y'all deal with programs not supported on Linux?
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Libre Office completely takes care of my Office needs.
if the documents exchanged by others used complex macros written on VBA using excel it looks pretty bad on Libreoffice.
Office 365 online can be a good stopgap for those cases if you need it.
Or reference managers. I'm in academia and it's a pain because I can't edit anything on Linux without breaking the fine, I tried everything, LibreOffice, Only office... Nothing works.
I simply resorted to using a windows+office VM for work, back when I was exchanging office documents with coworkers a lot. Even subtle things like font rendering would be different, making a 2 page doc into a 3 pages, etc. (Rendering, not just support - mscorefonts was already installed)