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bityard on Nov 25, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bye Bye Microsoft Office, Hello LibreOffice

> Excel is a piece of software that I would absolutely not hesitate to pay for... but I'm unfortunately stuck with LibreOffice.

But... according to the rest of your post, you _did_ hesitate to pay for it and are finding that LibreOffice doesn't fit your needs. So why not buy Excel?

sjy on Nov 25, 2019 [–]

From the parent:

> At home I run Linux... where there is no Excel

You can run it in a VM, but at that point you're already settling for a sub-optimal experience, so why not try a alternative that's free and packaged for your OS?

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