No, an Office365 subscription is worse. It is now all your documents belong to us Office and not the your computer may leak data Windows.

I did not know about Softmaker Office.

"But also why? If she's working at a university than she probably already has a free subscription to the online MS office anyway."
Nope, she does work for a university, she does not work there anymore. She hasn't worked there for over a decade.
She now only reviews reports and a few papers to keep busy. She does it on a consulting business. She keeps on getting asked to do it because she's a known quantity and sits outside the University politics and because she was a Dean knows when to ask nicely and when to fierce all over them.

I'm wondering if Office 2013 will run reliably and completely under Wine. I haven't tried Office-on-Wine in over a decade, I'd have to start at discovery again :whistle:

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I will try LibreOffice, but last time I tried (many years ago) it had issues with the audit/comment/suggesting and some differences re inserted excel graphs.
It's things that is not really used much outside of academia, so will have to get her to try it.

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My mum in law is perfectly happy with her W10 system, and she need MS Office for her academic report works as the university in question standardised on MS Office. Performance wise there is nothing wrong with it, mostly she gets annoyed by the popups and targeted advertising. (And twice it auto upgraded to fail and downgrade, which takes hours and hours. I managed to turn that off)

I don't know what I'm supposed to do. if I move her to e.g. Linux and LibreOffice... is she going to be able to do her work?
She's 78, she doesn't want to learn new things right now.

Seriously, that Dell XPS aged incredibly well, it has enough RAM to not feel slow and still has ten hour battery life.
So I'm probably going to try and keep it on W10 for her for a few more years. Somehow.

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This is possibly the game I'm looking forward to get and play most at the moment. I just can't stop hearing good things about it.

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The line must go up!
:angry:

Doesn't matter that Respawn somehow delivers a best sellers every time that EA management looks away, and delivers mediocre work when paid attention to.

EA exco: Lets pay more attention because that way I can say I changed things and forced the line up, so I can exceed my badly incentived KPI so I can get my bonus. Doesn't matter that we just hurt the long term industry, AI can take up the slack, right?

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I spent a bit of time hunting it down and I was thinking of Freespace 2.

I am enlightened that Everspace 2 is not Freespace 2. It's also new.

@Daneel I agree that visuals of this is stunning.

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Why did I in my mind think of Everspace2 as some 20-year old game? It looks very modern?
Is this a remake?
They even released the source code or something?
I am confused.

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The mods and the weird jank.

I find it weird that Elder Scrolls 6 is still not out and they are now doing remasters of 4...

I am strangely not excited about this. Maybe I'm just getting old.

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I downloaded it and tried it, it just shows a splash screen... eventually after a few minutes I had to hard kill it.
Doesn't look like it did anything, as the process was pretty much just idle.

I tried again, but nope. I would like to get feedback as to what it's trying to do, so I can help if need be, but this is just too abstract to work with.

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When I played this on my Dell M4400, I was just ecstatic that it ran as well as it did. I think it's gpu was about ⅓ of the Steam Deck's IGPU in performance.

I think a large part of how is aged so well is that they were both pushing the graphics envelope, AND the game has a very well polished and consistent artistic style. It's also not "open world" which always takes a toll.

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