Passing versions back and forth with comments and track changes. Basic details around formatting. Again, I don’t blame LO, I blame MS, but its simply more straightfoward to work in native office.

I will consider this. I don’t have a problem paying for software. So this seems potentially viable. It also seems potentially un/under tested for my use case. I really can-not have the situation where things dont basically “just work” with regards to document collaboration.

Yeah. I use LibreOffice for everything but my professional writing. I can’t use it for that. It simply doesn’t play nice in a manner I can rely on for professional collaboration when everyone else is using either native microsoft office or office on apple.

If I lived in a world where everyone was on libreoffice, it probably would be fine. And I don’t blame LO for the issue, I think MS specifically makes their product hard to cooperate with. But that doesn’t resolve the issue of passing drafts back and forth with collaborators.

So I start the VM when I need it, use the app I need, shut it back down. The VM has no internet access, only a designated VLAN with no outbound, and any documents going to or from I use a thumb drive. Excessive, yeah, but its how things work for me.

This was my thinking, but office suite, and the documents would get saved to the NAS. How do you manage it as a VM? Are you using proxmox or similar? Do you use a setup script of somekind? What version of microsoft? Keys?

No… but we do need to be able to access all features of document composition. I’ve never used the free web version. We’re pretty hung up on doing things locally, on our compute, without having to have access to the broader internet.

I use libux btw

Sure but they answer the question correctly, whereas alternatives don’t.

It’s not about what you prefer, it’s about what meets the answer to their question most appropriately.

They are asking for a 100% gui/ui experience with not having to access the terminal.

The right answer to send someone to in that case with the ecosystem we have, is immutables. That what they are for.

Bazzite is the correct answer. Or steam OS. Anything immutable. Mint is not the right answer.

Proxmox?

And yes. Its like a full time job to homelab. Or a part time job. Its just hard, and sometimes things just don’t work.

I guess one answer is to pick your battles. You can’t win them all. But things are objectively better than they were in the past.

Throw Pop_OS on and see if that fixes literally everything.

reaIIy?

If it has wired Ethernet, proxmox is like, a small miracle of convenience. You can slice and dice multiple machines from one. It’s litterally one for the best pieces of diy infra support I’ve ever experienced…

But you gotta be hardwired.

With proxmox?

The only bummer is the requirement of wired Ethernet

Ahh I love kden but I hate fighting with the layouts. I use arch btw.

I just live out of my downloads folder until its time to back up the important stuff to the server and reinstall/ distrohop.

Let F be a geometric object and let C be the set of counterexamples.

F is a True Fractal ⟺ F satisfies all properties P₁, P₂, …, Pₙ

Where for each counterexample c ∈ C that satisfies P₁…Pₙ: Define Pₙ₊₁ := “is not like c”

The definition recurses infinitely as new counterexamples emerge.

Corollary: Coastlines exhibit fractal properties at every scale… except they don’t, because [insert new property], except that’s also not quite right because [insert newer property], except actually [insert even newer property]…

□ (no true scotsman continues fractally)

Some infinites are larger than other infinites.

I don’t think this is happening but I’ll be on the lookout