[BuckyBeaver]

I switched to LibreOffice. MS Office has regressed dismally since its heyday in the '90s, and now with Microsoft's offensive hounding to "log in with your Microsoft account" at every goddamned turn it's simply unacceptable.

I made the mistake of buying Windows computers for my parents, because that's what they're used to. Microsoft's execrable policies and design made setting these up a clinic on how to piss customers off. Widespread UI defects... bafflingly disorganized design... disregard for user selections... and then the continual hounding hounding hounding for a "Microsoft account." For months, my parents would occasionally call me because Office would stop working and demand credentials (mine, of course, since it was my license).

So I finally shitcanned all of it and installed LibreOffice and Thunderbird (which has improved drastically in the 20 years since I've looked at it). But I still regret not getting them at least one Mac. I have plenty of issues with Apple UI decisions, but Windows and Office are such a shitshow at this point that the Mac looks like a finished product while Windows looks like a failed project cobbled together from... I don't even know what.