Isn’t just awkward that you use a different app? How do you explain?
Thanks to the behaviour of the American Government the past year, it has become really easy. Everybody suddenly understand and respect the argument of boycotting american products and software.
Depends on how long you’ve been working. After some amount of time like a year or two you can drop it into a conversation when helping a person “oh, I actually use libre office so I’m not sure where MS put that, let me check” and if they want more info they’ll ask. Sometimes they might be surprised that you can actually do this stuff on Linux.
I use it because it works for me.
“Oh yeah, I use that too.”
I was asked by a friend of the family why I had to “mod” everything, “You make it all so it doesn’t work right!”
…because “working right” in this day and age is a privacy nightmare, a security disaster, and relinquishing your rights, duh! Then I asked her how much the lawyer cost to understand what she’s agreeing to in all the EULAs of services she’s signed up for just to make things “work right”.
I practically never need to. I’ll find a way to make things work one way or another.
You don’t. Enjoy better, faster and more effective software and laugh when their shot breaks.
Do NOT tell anybody in the office that you use Libre Office.
If you do, you will be blamed for every problem anyone encounters.Font size looks incorrect - Carl’s fault for using libre office to edit the file (even though you never worked on that project at all).
Paper jamb in the printer - Carl’s fault for printing a document from that weird libre office program.
I got fired for saying something racist on twitter - Carl’s fault for using that weirdo libre shit.
Can second this. After becoming the tech person of my household most issues are now “my fault” I dont really mind in my situation but if it was the entire workplace, not good.
Second this. People who don’t understand tech blame anything that’s different for their problems even if unrelated.
This isn’t isolated to tech and is how bigotry persists
I don’t.
The better question asked is:
How do they explain to you that they don’t?
For work, I have a work computer with a build on it provided by work.
If your work is letting/having you use something different, then explanations shouldn’t be needed. If youre doing this on your own, that may be a problem.
At my work, anybody can have Windows, Mac, or Linux. Each have an approved set of software that they can use. If it’s not on the approved list, and it’s something freely available and gets regular security updates, it’s usually not a problem to get it on the list.
I don’t have to explain to my co-workers what software I use. Most of the time, it’s cloud-based or web-based and universal, anyway.
this was my thought.
It is the superior choice, doesn’t have ads, doesn’t try to sell you shit, it never updates without your permission, it doesn’t spy on you, it doesn’t sell your data, it is the superior choice, and penguins be cute.
I would never tell them how I do stuff unprompted. If they ask I’ll vaguely tell them because I suck at lying but no specifics.
I don’t owe my co-workers any explanation.
Does this actually cause compatibility issues? If not, no need to explain
