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by oblio 672 days ago
Sorry to be a downer but a cloud instructor is still a techie. I'd be way more impressed with a lawyer or an accountant using it but I've never seen one so far.
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perbu 672 days ago
fwiw; I worked in a company that was kind of a Linux pioneer back in the 90s. We ran Linux for everyone. The accountant ran a VM for his accouting software, but except that everything was Linux. And once set up, it worked very well, for techies and non-technical alike.

If you get past installation and initial setup, using Linux in a desktop role isn't really challenging if you've got access to support.

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szundi 672 days ago
I don’t believe lawyers can live without ms office
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trelane 672 days ago
It used to be that they couldn't live without Word Perfect.

Funny how that changed.

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rossant 672 days ago
I sometimes work with lawyers and doctors. As a Linux user I always need to have a macbook around for when I need MS Word.
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layer8 672 days ago
> Having this level of viability and operability is something I never expected to see.

It’s unexpected even in the case of techies.

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