[alvah]

"Trivial personal users moved to free alternatives ages ago"

Of all the things that didn't happen, this didn't happen the most.

[raincole]

It absolutely happened. But people didn't move to open source solutions. They moved to Google docs.

[Spivak]

At university the school gave away Office for free to all students and we still all used Google Docs. Google ate Word's lunch by making the 99.99% experience waaay better.

[worik]

> Google ate Word's lunch by making the 99.99% experience waaay better.

That is fascinating to me

I have never used MS 365, but due to work have extensively used Google docs

It is awful. I am continually amazed at how awful it is

Astoundingly the most awful part is searching my docs. Compared to a directory tree of MD docs, it is simply dreadful. Oh Google, how the mighty have fallen!

MS 365 is worse than that?

[rchaud]

Chromebooks have been heavily embedded in US schools since 2014 or so. That's probably had an impact on students preferring Google Docs.

[nickelpro]

Everyone uses Google Docs, everyone, even people who don't use Google Docs have some interaction with Google Docs.

You use Google docs.

[alvah]

I use Google Docs and Office, and I guarantee outside whichever bubble you and the OP live in, millions of "trivial personal users" around the world also use Office, therefore didn't "move to free alternatives".

[petepete]

Not really. All the non tech folks I know just the free version of Google office suite for the handful of letters and spreadsheets they create a year.