Subj : Re: 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.
To   : esc
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Tue Dec 13 2022 06:33:00

-=> esc wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

 es> My current employer uses Google suite for everything and honestly doing
 es> all Office type stuff in a browser is simpler in many ways. I wish the
 es> drive integration was stronger but it all works, which is good. And the
 es> multitude of MS Office features that differentiate it from GSuite are
 es> not very useful IMO...

With a large company and a team that can help integrate them, Teams, 
Sharepoint and OneDrive are pretty powerful. There's a new feature called 
Loop where you can share office content collaboratively in Teams, in 
Outlook, and OneDrive/Sharepoint.

It'd be like being able to copy and paste a table into an email and Teams, 
but have the recipient be able to edit it on the fly and update everywhere.

Sharepoint is the one thing lacking in GSuite - a way to create intranet 
sites. Teams sharing is starting to overtake Sharepoint now, to the point 
where we're running out of space for it!

For smaller groups, G Suite rocks for simplicity. At home, I find myself 
going to docs.new and sheets.new rather than opening Word or Excel.





Office products with feature simplicity is a
 es> godsend for me at this point in my career (I spent time in the military
 es> watching people agonize over silly slide details, it's nice to avoid
 es> this).

 pF> I know people at work that use the web apps almost exclusively, even
 pF> though  they have the Office suite installed on their laptops.

 es> I actually pay for Office for my own purposes (O365 I think) and have
 es> written wrappers to make it so that I can treat MS Office applications
 es> like fully integrated desktop apps in my linux desktop. Double clicking
 es> a Word doc will open in a standalone wrapped web Word app :)

 pF> I've sworn, every time I make a system change, that it'll be the time
 pF> that I  install Linux on my desktop -- but I'm still running Windows,
 pF> albeit 10  only. We'll see what I do if this PC lasts longer than
 pF> Windows 10 support.

 es> I upgraded from Win10 to Win11 and tried very hard to like it, but
 es> really just kept getting frustrated. I wound up blowing everything away
 es> and starting from scratch once again with linux and haven't looked
 es> back. I just prefer the level of control I get to exert here.

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