Excel is my big anchor to keeping a windows machine around. You need the windows version to do things like powerpivot.
Main system though has been Slackware for 8 years or so and various Linuxen since 2000 for the most part.
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If you can use Linux, you can learn SQL and stop using the dog shit that is excel
I'm quite familiar with SQL. It's got its use cases.
Excel with DAX, webquery, power pivot, and its full suite of functionality is a faster way to accomplish a lot. With the tools at hand to make visuals, and even live dashboards.
Sure, you CAN do it all with python, or heck, C if you're patient enough. Just like you can drive a car without tires if you can fashion a round thing to replace them with out of rocks.
Right tool for the job saves you time though.
Don't worry, it's Excel from the high seas.