[api]

That's a big part of the continuing appeal of Apple in spite of some of their mis-steps. My Mac mostly just gives me a working system that keeps working and is mostly devoid of crap. The crap it does have can generally be disabled.

[headhunter]

I'm not an apple fan, in general, but I agree. I would do everything on linux mint (pretty windows 95-ish) if I could.

[tfranco]

...if it only could run MS Office...

[jotm]

Surprisingly it's one of the suites WINE ran perfectly last time I used it 5 or so years ago. Talking about MSO 2010, of course, not the newer trash.

[tfranco]

Second that. And the fact it can run MS Office.

You can get some versions of Linux that are pretty stable with the right hardware, but the lack of MS Office is a total bummer.

PS: First person to say that one can run MS Office using Wine, will get nailed to a tree.

[thethirdone]

Is there a particular reason LibreOffice is not sufficient?

I rarely use MS Office like software so using LibreOffice has been perfectly fine for me.

[Rjevski]

LibreOffice is absolutely awful from an UX point of view. That’s enough to put me off personally.

If you’re an office expert you’d probably figure out how to use it, but for me I’ve only used an office suite maybe a dozen times in my life so I’m very new to it, and latest Office 2016 allows me to get started easily (the much-hated Ribbon UI works for me and is intuitive), where as I find myself Googling all the time to do even the basic stuff in LibreOffice.

[tfranco]

LibreOffice suffers the same issues as Star Office and others alike, and I think this is a reflection of how people get rewarded by developing open source.

Adding new features gives you a lot of fame. Fixing bugs and improving things does not.

[wilsonnb]

I don't think LibreOffice has an equivalent to OneNote, and I use the desktop client for that a lot.

Also, this might sound shallow to some, but the latest version of Office just looks a lot better than LibreOffice and I enjoy that.

[laken]

If you want it more like Windows 95, why not LibreOffice? ;P

(As an aside, LibreOffice puts into perspective how useful the Ribbon menu is)

[tfranco]

LibreOffice is a nice thing until you get really serious and your day depends on a good office suite.

MS Office is complex, full of bugs... but it has all the things in place that a power user needs. They gave a big though about the things people need. The CTRL+Y after a CTRL+X on excel is a great example of that.

I have a love/hate relationship with MS Office. I would lave to have something better... but we're still far away.

[gnicholas]

> The crap it does have can generally be disabled.

Except the keyboard.