Posted by wek 5 days ago
I tried to get my lawyer-mom switched to Linux a bit ago, and she loved it in generally, but none of the Office competitors had good enough compat to work.
The only other thing keeping her on Windows is Adobe PDF pro, since it can do OCR where, when you edit it, it reflow the text in a font that matches the scanned in one to look like the original. (I also got weird "This feels like it enables fraud vibes" from this, but, no, turns out it's a totally common workflow for lawyers to need to do this ... I hate it.)
Cool to see 1/2 of the problems keeping her on Windows solved.
Don't worry about that - all the agents/harnesses/tools that produce .doc or .docx files do so with LibreOffice now. In a short time people would rather tell their agent "produce this file" and get one that is 99.9% compatible with Word than actually open Word and use the builtin copilot.