It doesn’t use Visual Basic for its macros so I wouldn’t expect a complex compatibility. To be fair Excel macros is usually a problem outside of MS Office.

It’s not open source but probably has the best compatibility. You can give it a shot.

https://www.freeoffice.com/en/

Needs an account after one week though.

Not Linux but Haiku would run on it I think.

As a calligrapher, this is not pleasing to look at. Far from it.

I assume you’ve never used Linux long enough to get a grip. You would get there if you use it long enough.

However, operating systems are just tools. Use which one is easy for you. If you have no spare time to learn a new OS, just use what you know. Though Microsoft’s latest shenanigans really force some people to switch to other OSes.

Void mlem

I think I used to do that with wicd.

I’m kinda lazy so when I need one, I just use Gnome Boxes and it’s pretty easy to setup.

Well, it changes after you start to use them. With enough experience, you’ll start to think that, “I don’t like this feature that much, how would it be this way?”, and there is probably already a WM that does it.

I started using WMs long ago but my first tiling WM was i3 as well. However configuring it to the way I like was taking a lot of time, so I was in a search for a WM that does what I like out of the box. After searching I have found bspwm. It is still my go-to WM if I use Xorg, but I moved to Wayland recently and Hyprland was the easy choice. Though currently I’m reading river’s documentation and I’m thinking to switching to it when I feel ready. From what I read, it can do what I want, with enough configuring. And it seems really flexible.

A Criminal Regiment Of Nasty Young Men

Moo, I say.

This once happened to me on my pi-hole. It’s an old netbook with 250 GB HDD. Pi-hole stopped working and I checked the netbook. There was a 242 GB log file. :)

13 years old i7-2600 still going strong here.

Nice moustache

Can’t decide if it’s chonk or just fluff

You can boot Linux via USB but you cannot boot Windows that way. It’s a Windows problem with no solution.

I mean you don’t really use Arch if you don’t bork it once in a while. :)

If you can access it on Windows, that’s a good thing and all you need is a disk repair there. If you cannot access it even on Windows, you’ll need file recovery (and another 4TB disk).

However, note that there is a good chance for NTFS disks to get corrupted on Linux if you unmount them without getting the notification that indicates it’s safe to remove the disk.

So I really recommend you to find a temporary disk (or buy a new one) and copy everything to it and format your disk as a Linux file system of your choice and move your files to it, before you get a real headache with NTFS (talking out of experience).

Also note that, it’s possible for NTFS disks become inaccessible if fastboot option is enabled for Windows on BIOS, if so disable it.

Uhh, this is just the very first Ubuntu on VM. Default config.

You can try something like antiX but it won’t do good as a desktop. I use my netbook as a home server with pi-hole in it.