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Windows 11 is a self inflicted torture if you adopt it just because you may have upgrade FOMO issues. Windows 10 EOL is still 2½ years away. Run it to the ground till then. W11 might even be properly debotnetted and debloated by then, like how W10 got the treatment years after its 2016 launch. Every new version of Windows is a guinea pig testbed for the first few years.
Either way, Linux+Steam with MS Office 2007 in a Windows XP virtual machine can suffice almost all of your needs. The rest is very specific needs like Photoshop, CorelDraw, games that do not work under WINE/Proton or any specific Windows software.
Why use MS Office 2007 when you can use LibreOffice?
Because LibreOffice is objectively shit for real world work. If LO were used by other people, it would allow for some standardised treatment of document formatting. It is useless to fight against Excel, Word and PowerPoint if you work with other people anywhere.
Best to treat these things as tools rather than be stuck with ideology getting in the way of doing things, and wasting energy on things best used elsewhere.
No, I do not prefer MS Office, but 2007 is pretty okay to use, and even 2016 is okay if you want to use newer version on 7/8.1/10/11.
Are you saying this because of the file formats? You DO know you can saves your documents in the Ms Office 2007 formats, and even make them your default file formats, right?
I mentioned formatting. It is inconsistent. If you want to ensure layout between MSO and LO user stays same, only way is to export as PDF to each other as final output, thus disallowing editing and making collaborative work impossible.
I tried to use LO on Linux for years at university forcibly with others, only to give up later and use MSO 2007 in a XP VM. It just never works out.
Stop being unrealistic FOSS evangelists and instead just try to make sure a reasonable amount of workflow is migrated to FOSS. Office suite is not a battle we can win for now.
Hm… I was under the impression it was rare nowadays to have such a difference between the two, clearly I was wrong. And yes, with such layout problems between the two suites, you can’t use LibreOffice if you’re working conjointly with peoples using Ms Office. (Which is, lest be honest, the case almost all the time.)
That said, for peoples at home who don’t need to share a modifiable version of the documents they create, y would still recommend LO over MsO, for no other reason than the price. (Which DON’T include peoples bringing work at home, nor those working on some collaborative documents in their free time.)
MS Office is a lot more polished even for personal use. No I do not care about OneDrive and few fancy things, but I care about the core offline features related to document. The weird part is I can expect MSO documents to open in LO correctly most of the time, even though the opposite is not true.
I get away with personally using LO, but the moment I think a document might need to be made for external sharing or work, MSO needs to be picked. I do not consider it a sin to use old MSO versions.
Wich is what I said should be donne in such a case in my last answer, just with my own words.
And no, using old MsO versions in not a sin, especially if you can't do otherwise. (Not thut it would be a sin to use what you're more comfortable with anyway.)