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How was your experience using Linux in college? (midwest.social)
submitted 3 months ago by clark@midwest.social to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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This is aimed at students/ex-students that used Linux while studying in college.

I'm asking because I'll be starting college next year and I don't know how much Windows-dependency to expect (will probably be studying to become a psychologist, so no technical education).

I'm also curious about how well LibreOffice and Microsoft Office mesh, i.e. can you share and edit documents together with MOffice users if you use LibreOffice?

Any other things to keep in mind when solely using Linux for your studies? Was it ever frustrating for you to work on group projects with shared documents? Anything else? Give me your all.

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[–] clark@midwest.social 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Forgive the stupid question but I just want to be sure. If I write a document in LibreOffice and use a bunch of fonts and fancy stuff, then send it as a PDF to a MOffice user, they will be able to see all the fonts and such?

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

No question is stupid.

If the font is included in the PDF file, yes. This is how PDF is designed to work. The whole point is that PDFs should look identical on all platforms

[–] clark@midwest.social 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Super! I won't have any issue submitting assignments then. Only trouble of course would be live collaboration, but I can always use MOffice web-version for that.