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Inverness, Scotland.

Forester and Linux fan.

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po3mah, (edited ) to linux
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I'm planning to remove Windows from the rest of my machines soon.
There is a small (big) obstacle though and I'd like to hear your experience.
I'm using for the majority of my and the team's workflow. I'm mostly concerned about the sync functionality.
Which client offers the best, most stable and most similar sync experience to the official Win app?
The second issue is Office365 (offline apps). Can it run reliably in yet?
(contd...)

pocketlint, (edited )
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@po3mah Sorry for the drive-by commenting, but I thought I could help re. MS Office/Wine.
IMO, all the Linux FOSS Office wannabes are not good alternatives for serious office use. Instead, I recommend Softmaker's Office suite. It looks like MS Office, behaves like MS Office and has been trouble-free in the two weeks I have been personally using it on Fedora 40. Also, it works on Windows, so you can try it now (free to download and try for 30 days).

pocketlint,
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@po3mah I'm not sure, as I have not tested this. Maybe you could install Softmaker Office on Windows and see if it works with your existing MS Office files?
I found that the MS Office compatibility of the Linux alternatives was not very good, although others will say different.
Going off-topic (sort of) I even found inconsistencies in how Linux apps deal with the open office document formats, so I decided to stick to MS format, even though I hope to be 90% linux now.

pocketlint, to Cat
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Stolen from here: https://www.instagram.com/p/C7Lfv0_CNzB/?img_index=1

pocketlint, to Scotland
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A glorious evening up here in the North of Scotland.

Finally warm, with the lovely smell of flowering bird cherry (Prunus padus) in the air.

Perfect!

thelinuxEXP, to random
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As a content creator, I’m all for getting more money, but forcing users to watch ads isn’t the way to do it… I think YouTube would lose a lot of viewers if they enforced this on everyone, and creators would suffer as a result.

https://www.ign.com/articles/google-responds-to-reports-of-ad-blockers-being-banned-on-youtube

pocketlint,
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@thelinuxEXP So true! I bought myself a fancy smart TV and I mostly only watch YouTube. However, I can't block ads like I could on my PC and I find the quantity of them to be intolerable. As a result, I now watch about half the YouTube content I did before.

pocketlint,
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@thelinuxEXP I run my own DNS and I used a blacklist to block the ads on the TV, but the smart TV has its own flavour of YouTube app embedded in it and it refuses to work properly if it can't serve the ads. Clever, but sneaky and annoying. It was an expensive top-of-the-range TV too (grrrr). Premium is probably my best option. I would rather pay a small fee direct to each content produced and lose the ads on their channels, rather pay the Premium fee and have YT pocket it!

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