This is aimed at students/ex-students that used Linux while studying in college.
I’m asking because I’ll be starting college next year and I don’t know how much Windows-dependency to expect (will probably be studying to become a psychologist, so no technical education).
I’m also curious about how well LibreOffice and Microsoft Office mesh, i.e. can you share and edit documents together with MOffice users if you use LibreOffice?
Any other things to keep in mind when solely using Linux for your studies? Was it ever frustrating for you to work on group projects with shared documents? Anything else? Give me your all.
Used it for physics stuff
So far I’ve been able to run everything I need to off of it, and libreoffice works very well with office docs in my experience.
I study computer science and it’s definitely been an advantage. That being said, I believe circumstances might wary between institutions, countries, subjects and teachers a lot.
For documents, when we have a group task, we just use collaboration platforms online, like Google docs. Gets the job done easily.
When you’re alone, using free stuff shouldn’t be a problem.
A little advice: don’t bother with latex and use typst instead. Latex works but it’s often weird and the error messages are hidden in a thousand lines of “unfull hbox”
Current student here (CS, so sadly not in your field):
In my case, college/university actually made sure, I and many others would be using Linux as their main system. The computer lab is using Linux (Ubuntu 22.04 mainly) although Windows machines (mostly for beginner courses) and Macs (for stuff like Final Cut Pro and other Apple exclusive software) are available and many courses are either requiring or putting mainline support towards Linux.
Document wise - we were taught LaTeX from day 1 and are expected to have at least the knowledge to utilize the given .cls files. Sharing documents is rather a free-for-all: When LaTeX is required for the course, either Overleaf or the university git is the choice for group-work, otherwise there aren’t requirements for using .docx files or other files.
Hope I could give you an insight, although not in your field.
I set up dual boot but ended up only running Windows once when I had trouble with my Windows VMs. You’ll be fine.
Especially since MSOffice everything is just browser apps anyway.
