Nobody needs microsoft when they can go for libre office. and #linux. And #firefox or brave. Or whatever. Open-source is gratis and free and neutral.
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Discussion
What type of hardware rig? Does it matter?
Apart from Chromebooks kinda suck
Stupid questions, but keep in mind I'm a tile setter. Nothing to do with tech professionally at all.
If you have microsoft windows still installed (computer operation system) you can just download libreoffice from their website (backed by document foundation) and use it.
If you want to use linux, install linux, go to the libreoffice website and download and use it.
the same for almost every other combuter.