BL3 is the existing evidence

My personal problem is that I’m so bad at using it

It’s not you, it’s just that Windows is badly designed.

It’s been talked about to death. It’s been analysed to death.

But here’s a very detailed and thorough breakdown:

https://youtu.be/0Udn7WNOrvQ

Lied

He’s on float plane

I’ll never support anyone on that platform. I’ll never do anything to give LTT a cent.

IIRC, Collabora is based off of LibreOffice.

What I do is just take out the card a plug it into a little USB dongle thing which I can plug into either my phone or laptop.

What’s wild to me is that anyone would do it any other way. I’m astounded that this is somehow a “tip”.

Not even 10 years ago it was simply the way to do it.

I mean sure it has a shared history

Wait, you serious?

is still clunky compared to others.

Wut?

Remember the other day when Microsoft boasted that 40% of their code is written by AI?

Plex (originally) and Jellyfin are a centralized way of managing your media with aesthetic and easy to use interfaces. I have one Jellyfin server and I have a Netflix/Display+ type interaction with my media. I have the same content on my phone, wife’s phone, my desktop, laptop, my TV, etc.

All watch history, recommendations, up next queue, and so on.

And with the right setup (Wireguard in my case) I can access that content from anywhere.

“Initial focus on PC”

I hope they’re using those words correctly and I can pay it on Linux.

MM/DD/YYYY

DD/MM/YYYY

Both of these are the wrong way to format dates.

But nobody who uses it treats it like “just a tool.”

I do. I use it to tighten up some lazy code that I wrote, or to help me figure out a potential flaw in my logic, or to suggest a “better” way to do something if I’m not happy with what I originally wrote.

It’s always small snippets of code and I don’t always accept the answer. In fact, I’d say less than 50% of the time I get a result I can use as-is, but I will say that most of the time it gives me an idea or puts me on the right track.

looking at things i think i meamt Only Office. Any opinions there?

If I remember correctly, Only Office uses LibreOffice as its core and then adds or changes default stuff. I might be wrong about that. But ultimately I hear positive things about Only Office.

The hosting is on my old desktop which is running server 2016. I’d like to replace the OS on it too. I don’t keep the box online so I’m not keen on using it for anything other than game servers.

Sounds like a perfect situation for loading something like Proxmox and then visualizing the Windows Server 2016 instance. You would basically have the exact same functionality but with way more options like cloning and backing up the server.

Appreciate you not going aggro on me over it.

No worries at all. I think the automatic defensiveness from Linux people comes from old misconceptions being repeated often. Or sometimes it comes from how something is read and interpreted. Someone might say “I can’t switch because I need XYZ”, to which a very literal response is “you can use ABC which does the same thing, so you can switch”. When what the first person meant is "I can’t switch because I prefer XYZ", which is a completely valid reason.

I wasn’t going to berate you or anything. I was genuinely curious.

I am going to be trying out libreoffice and OpenOffice

LibreOffice is great. I use it on my work system at a medium to larger sized company (every single other person uses o365). I haven’t heard anyone complain yet about doc comparability and I haven’t had any issues myself.

Stay away from OpenOffice. It’s practically a dead product. When Oracle bought OpenOffice, the community forked the project which became LibreOffice. LibreOffice is where all the development and community focus and effort has gone since.

OneNote is my second most vital

I don’t have any recommendations here. I’ve never really found a “perfect” solution for this. Currently I use a few different solutions, but it’s all centred around markdown, so they’re all interchangeable.

OneDrive is probably my most vital.

I personally wouldn’t touch OneDrive with a hundred meter pole. MS does so much screwing around with your data that you can never be sure if the data stored is what you uploaded. They’ve been known to just up and delete files they scan and think is malicious, even if it’s a false positive. Then they’re known to scan all your documents for everything, including potential passwords, then use those passwords to open password-protected files and then scan them also.

Then there’s the situation from a year or so ago where they automatically switched everyone’s documents folder to a “cloud first” folder, where they just auto-uploaded everyone’s local files, deleted the local copies, and did it all without user consent or even informing users. And this resulted in all kinds of wild crap like people not having access to their documents because they were offline and were expecting local files. Then some people had their metered data connection getting maxed out. While others couldn’t even modify their files or even save a file to their “My Documents” folder because the default storage allocation was far less than the total data of their local files. So effectively the data was held for ransom.

it’s mostly running dedicated game servers that have no Linux option.

Most newer games that you can run your own dedicated server will almost certainly have a Linux option, which suggests you might taking about older games, in which case something like Lutris (Wine) might be an option.

But are you hosting these game servers on your desktop?

I have an Mvidia card (drivers are notoriously troublesome on Linux).

They haven’t been for a while now. On some newer distros they’ll install the Nvidia drivers at the same time as the OS itself.

Nvidia GPUs are not good in Linux at the moment

They’ve been perfectly fine for years. And now they’ve never been better for desktop DEs.

What kind of things are holding you back?

Three incoherent replies with jumbled run-on sentences.

the businesses with clean perfect sites tend to be the scams

Uhhh, no. Objectively no. A legit website is not going to have spelling mistakes and broken links. Looking professional and thorough is a direct lead to increased business. What you just said is completely false, and frankly idiotic.

Everything else you said (in all three replies) is just a jumbled mess of a brain dump that I’m not even going to try and address any of it.