What do they do with Excel for Windows that they can't do with Excel for Mac?

major505 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This is exactly what I do with my personal computing. I would prefer to be on linux, but a lot of people still sends me data in excel spreadsheets for processing, and lets be honest: apple hardware is fucking awesome.

The feeling of being able to work away from my desk and dont care about battery, is so goooooooood.

And I have to admit. Even if I dont like macos, my macbook with m1 and 16gb ram is probably the fastest laptop I ever own.

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e12e 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Excel for Mac has gotten a lot better - but I'm not surprised if it is still its own thing - with edge cases in format, macros, visual basic, linking to databases and data sources etc. I imagine excel under wine is better than the port to Mac in some respects.

	▲	bombcar an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The edge cases are where it can break, but they're getting smaller and smaller as Excel slowly turns into a web-based app.
	▲	tombert 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		If you can even get Excel working under Wine. Older ones work fine, but AFAIK there's no way to get the modern Excel working on Wine.

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tombert 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm honestly not sure. I'm sure my dad Googled something to use it as an excuse to not change.

As I said in a sibling comment, I think they really just don't want to change and they are looking for excuses; I suspect even if I could prove that there's absolute feature parity between the two versions they'd just find another reason.