Re: Does Dimdows Know What Time It Is?

On 10/4/2024 5:18 PM, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:

On Thu, 3 Oct 2024 08:39:05 -0400, DFS wrote:
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Face facts: the whole planet has 30 years of MS Office knowledge and
experience ...

 No, it isn't.

Your answer should be "No, it doesn't."
Either way: yes, it does.  There are now between 1.2B and 1.6B MS Office users, from all over the world, starting when the Office bundle was released in the mid-1990s.
Here are interesting sources of MS Office stats:
https://contentdetector.ai/articles/microsoft-365-suite-statistics/
https://enlyft.com/tech/products/microsoft-office-365
Neither of them are really upfront about their sources of info, though.

I have 30 years of experience of Linux command line.

I first tried Linux in 1997.  I should've stuck with it.  Knowing the Unix FHS and shells and bash and CLI commands makes you a more well-rounded technologist.
For instance, 10+ years ago I wanted to download many .pdf files from a webpage.  I Googled and all the results were 3rd party GUI apps and browser extensions.  They worked OK, but it was more difficult and time-consuming than issuing a simple wget command.
If you Google today for 'download pdf files from a website', pretty much every result is the same: add an extension to your browser, or download a GUI app.
Of course, to use wget you have to be willing to use a terminal (turns most people off), know a couple wget flags, and find a version for Windows or use WSL.
Today I only use wget on Windows, even though the GUI apps are powerful too.
I've recently been downloading college course websites, and often use:
$ wget -r -np --reject mp4 url
That will recurse through all directories at or below the url, not get any parent directories, and not download mp4 files (because they're often huge).
Of course, wget has a million flags, and will do a lot more than that. Great program.  Somehow it has over 300 contributors.

I learned them a long time ago and still use them now. For MS Office,
every time there is an update, everything is messed up,

everything?  Quit exaggerating.
The only truly big change in MS Office was when they went to the Ribbon interface (v2007 I believe).
I still run Office 2003.
 > I don't find anything
anything?  Quit exaggerating.
 > and I have to learn it from the start again.
An Office update every few years with a few changes and you throw a tantrum?
Linux made you a wimp.  Time to eat more red meat and eggs.  Slap your boyfriend.  Learn some new racial slurs.