Isn’t just awkward that you use a different app? How do you explain?
I don’t owe my co-workers any explanation.
Literally no one will care. Just make sure that your documents works well for them.
“Ewww, Windowsssss!”
Pinch my nose, spray my fingers with hand sanitizer, then walk away from their desk.
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.
I only use LibreOffice and don’t tell anyone. It has only been a problem once when a client wanted me to use Word so she could keep track of changes. As a freelancer I wasn’t about to go and use Word for one client. I just submitted the work as a PDF and they never brought it up again.
LibreOffice Writer can also keep track of changes and it is compatible with Word 👍
Why would it be awkward? Most non-technical people are so thrown by my white-text-on-black desktop theme that they can’t even tell what software I’m using, and the few technical people around know that I have Opinions about software and aren’t interested in talking about it. Keeping everything adequately compatible with the company-issued software is my problem.
I practically never need to. I’ll find a way to make things work one way or another.
I don’t. I just export to PDF if I need them to see formatting the same.
I will use whatever they will provide me. If i am to use Microsoft products, so be it. Not only that, but I don’t give a flying fuck for the company’s data i work for. They asked for it 🙃
“MS Office with its integrated spyware and other anti-features doesn’t meet basic security and data protection requirements so I use LibreOffice”
I teach, so trying to adjust old ppts for lecture got a little weird because it turned the bulletpoints into mailboxes, and equation formulas are done completely differently so libre just makes them uneditable (a picture?).
When things got wonky in lecture though I managed just fine. My students are much worse, they open shit in non-MS apps all the time (.notes for takehome exams, or like, keynote, whatever) and fuck up formatting all the time, often without even realizing it. (I do provide PDF alternatives at least). Explaining I use libre really easy in that case, lol.
Why would they even need to know? You can save it in .docx if you need to share it with someone.
I think you can also export your files using .PDF format.
The better question asked is:
How do they explain to you that they don’t?
“I use Libre Office”
“I use _____ ______”
I don’t.
