Comments by "Terry Daktyllus" (@terrydaktyllus1320) on "Are you Still using Microsoft Office? Time to Move On. An Alternative." video.

Agreed. I gave up on MS Office the moment that terrible ribbon interface appeared - I think it came out in Office 2007, wasn't it?
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Nobody does serious computing on a touchscreen phone or tablet - that's why babies like touchscreens on their Disney tablets in the back of their parents' car on long journeys.
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As they should do. No private citizen and tax payer should be forced to pay a "Microsoft tax" by having to own Microsoft Office just to read .doc or .xlsx files that their governments hand out online. Public documents should always be distributed in open formats that anyone can read.
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@Dave-um7mw No, I don't have the answers to everything - for example, I have no interest in horse riding, so you won't find me hanging around equestrian channels on YouTube. So stop making silly assumptions and put your "amateur Internet psychologist" books away - because you've never met me, if you passed me in the street you wouldn't know it, and therefore you're hardly qualified to discuss me as a topic. Now do try to keep up and stay on topic, there's a good chap. We were talking about computers... in your own time...
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I would suggest that probably less than 10% of Excel users use Visual Basic macros in their documents - and I would suspect almost all of those work in corporate environments anyway.
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@CnCDune You do not need Excel to do engineering calculations, and I speak as an engineer with a high education in mathematics also. There are many other tools that one can use and entirely cross platform. If anything your "engineering students" case is not as restrictive as with a corporation where employees working on spreadsheets or databases may be forced to use Microsoft applications only due to corporate requirements and restrictions.
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Absolutely. Vim (with plugins) in rapidly becoming my only text editing application now that I have discovered markdown for writing wikis and presentations, and pandoc to convert that stuff to anything else I want - pdf, html, etc. I've been dabbling with LaTeX recently and I love it. I have spent 20+ years of my life gettng wound up by WYSIWYG editors (MS Office and Libre Office) where formatting and bullet number never works that you want it to and you end up messing around with the program features that kills your workflow. With LaTeX (and other markup languages) you stick the markup tags exactly where you want them and can just get on and write - and when you're done, you can put it through whatever formatting templates you want. I just need to spend more time learning what LaTeX can really do - when you really master it, it produces truly beautiful and professional looking documents.
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@Legomanfred I have been a Gentoo Linux user for 20 years now but whilst I believe it's the "best" Linux there is, it's an advanced distro and has a steep learning curve to become proficient with it. But I've set people up with MInt and Ubuntu in the past, and support them occasionally, and they seem to like them.
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@VioFax You're probably right but it's up to them. I gave up being a zealot about Linux some years ago because I worked out that 3% or 93% desktop share really wouldn't make any difference to how I love to use Linux myself anyway. People have a right to make their own mistakes in life.
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@CnCDune And I am still saying that most people that use Excel don't need macros. Sure, that those do can't make do with LibreOffice as an alternative.
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@@hasnibrahiti590 I don't take orders from strangers on the Internet. I also stopped painting little faces around words that I write when I got to age seven and first learned joined-up writing. Just saying. Are you not at school today, sonny? Have you done your homework? Run along, mind how you go and stay away from sharp scissors. Discussion closed.
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It's irrelevant whether it's on there or not - one app isn't going to protect you. If anything, it makes it worse for you because it gives you a false sense of security. Any security analyst who knows what they are talking about will refer to "defense in depth" where you should take a layered approach to security by thinking about attack vectors (how you might be attacked) and then deploying appropriate mechanisms to defend against those attacks - if one defence is breached then others are still in place denying access to your personal information.
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@Legomanfred Whatever works for you - it's why I hand out Mint and Ubuntu to newbie friends and family when they ask me for some Linux.
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The heaviest desktop version of Linux, Ubuntu has an average memory usage profile of somewhere between 2-4GB - assuming you've got a browser with a few tabs open and LibreOffice doing some "heavy lifting" with some big documents. Windows 10 and 11 have a requirement for a minimum of 8GB RAM before you take anything else into account. Windows Defender, Microsoft's built in anti-malware package, used to have a very poor reputation until the dawn of around Windows 8 when it suddenly improved in quality dramatically - mainly down to the fact that a lot of it resides in memory constantly scanning the contents of your PC (sorry, the PC that you paid for that Microsoft leases back to you once Windows is on it) and reporting back to Microsoft in real time of anything suspicious that it finds and comparing it to what is on the PCs of other users. Hence the memory usage profile of Windows is much higher. So, in simple terms, if you seriously believe that storing your documents on your own PC is more secure than in the Cloud when you run Windows, you are very much mistaken - Microsoft still knows everything about you and what is on your PC at all times.
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@UrfriderPoro You're entitled to think what you like. Once I have given you information that I know is to the best of my ability and knowledge, then my job as a "good Internet citizen" is done and I can sleep soundly at night - whether you choose to take that advice on board or ignore it, that's up to you.
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@Matx5901 Rubbish, Python programmers would far outnumber VBA, programmers it's ubiquitous across every computer system, including Android which is the most common OS in the world today - and you won't find VBA on Android, but you'll certainly find a lot of Python on Windows.
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Outlook is, and always has been, a single threaded and bloated piece of cr*p.
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@Dave-um7mw "TLDR." And that's why you appear so ignorant on computers now. If you don't read things, how do you ever learn new things? " Anyway, your "no one does serious computing on a touchscreen phone or tablet" comment led me to believe you were trolling, so I responded in kind." What it "led you to believe" is nothing to do with me, I am not in control of your thought processes. "The way-to-long-of-a-response you just wrote on the other hand, leads me to believe that you're serious about thinking people only use word processors or spreadsheets for "serious computing" and nothing else. Is this true?" No, that seems to be you putting words into my mouth and then arguing against them, even if I could make sense of that statement. Using a word processor or spreadsheet for productivity or work purposes would fall under "serious computing" - as would, say, programming a computer system to control an industrial machine or editing a video for training purposes. So what?
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@goathead3329 I always recommend Mint or Ubuntu, in that order, to new Linux users - they are geared to make your initial experience as easy as possible.
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Those are just words. What changes have you made in the way you use computing devices because of the instructions that Rob has given you?
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