I kinda get it though. I think every single time in my life I’ve sent a document in the non-Microsoft format I’ve got a reply saying they couldn’t open it. That’s from LibreOffice and from Mac.

Trying to get tech illiterate people to use LibreOffice and to export their documents as PDF but they just keep sending the original files every single time… nightmare material

In college my professor wouldn’t accept pdfs for assignments because it guess he couldn’t check the metadata or make comments or something.

So I literally had to download MS office just to submit assignments in their format…

Damn, I was gonna say just use web version, but they do often have missing features compared to app, so I understand why you had to download it…

The web version is even worse! It’s all cloud-based, and you need a subscription unless your University pays for a license.

The only reason to use it would be to write things in Libre and then copy/paste them into MS and manually fix all the formatting.

I hated it, because all the professors could just smugly say “You know you have free access to Office 365 with your student email, right?”

That’s not the fucking point! I don’t give a shit if it’s free, I don’t want to use a fucking microsoft product, especially one that’s cloud-based, when there’s a perfectly good open-source alternative that I can run locally on my own hardware.

Just one of the many problems with the corporatization, commodification, and enshittification of education. If the focus was on learning and academic freedom, FOSS solutions would be encouraged. But no, you’re forced to use proprietary software, because “reasons” capitalism…