Today I did my first advanced spreadsheet on LibreOffice after switching to Linux, and it handled itself pretty well. I had to search for some features on the web at first, but after I got it down, I felt comfortable using it. Also, LibreOffice’s default menu layout is not pretty, but I can find all of the functions with just a click, unlike MS Office’s ribbon menu where I had to click around to find what I was looking for. Sorry for bad English.
A co-worker was told (verbatim) by the head of IT that " we don’t use open source". So yeah…
Okay maybe I should have said they can’t say no and appear reasonable? Was there a justification or is this guy Joseph Goebbels or something? I bet you didn’t use AI 2 years ago but probably have that running rampant.
I’d love to live in a world where I trust everyone to install software on computers, but Mr Ransomware, albeit not common, is out there waiting to fuck up the business with a portable application he found. He wanted to do something for a colleague, but we all nearly suffered for it.
Install things the right way, and if you can’t, make a case for it and get managers involved. Justify the time saved or the comfort it provides: everyone hates AI, blame it on copilot being in excel.
Bypassing security instead of working with them doesn’t help anyone and it almost always ends badly.