Re: [PLUG] lin alternatives

[Steve Litt via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

jeffv via plug said on Tue, 7 Sep 2021 12:08:47 -0400

>14 Most Used Windows Alternatives for Linux
>
>https://www.tecmint.com/windows-alternatives-for-linux/

This is a very nice software list and I'll use it often. I'd add
Inscape and LyX to the list, but I don't know what their Windows
equivalents are. I've recently discovered a Linux program called
QOwnNote that promises to be very useful in many different tasks.

My one caution about the list is that Microsoft Office is much, much
MUCH better than LibreOffice. I've used them both, a lot. In various
edge cases of use, LibreOffice loses its definition of its styles,
rendering it almost useless for writing long documents or doing
presentations.

Linux alternatives to LibreOffice Presenter include LaTeX plus Beamer,
and perhaps Markdown->HTML, or substitute asciidoc or other simple
markup languages for Markdown. Alternatives to the LibreOffice word
processor include LyX. As far as spreadsheets, I use Gnumeric, not the
LibreOffice spreadsheet, and I can read and save Excel spreadsheets as
long as they don't have Excel-specific things (like a Basic
interpreter).

Once again, I suggest you try QOwnNote. It can be pretty handy in a lot
of situations.

SteveT

Steve Litt 
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