Sorry for the Danish post i hope you can translate it.

The Ministry warns that Microsoft programs can create problems for written exams for students with Mac computers.

Users who have updated the programs to the latest version may experience the programs running slowly, freezing and crashing. This means that the examinees are delayed in their work and that parts of the answers risk being lost, write the Agency for Education and Quality and the Agency for IT and Learning in a notice to schools.

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      5 months ago

      What do you recommend? I love LibreOffice on Windows and Linux, and it still works well on macOS but the GUI seems weird on it, the buttons are really large. I still use it but my partner is put off by it.

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          5 months ago

          What’s controversial about OnlyOffice?

          I only recently discovered it, and I’ve been happy with it so far. I’ve found the interface a little more snappy and easy to use than LibreOffice.

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          5 months ago

          Cool, thanks! This is what I was looking for. I’ve briefly tried playing with Nextcloud before, but this seems like another good option.

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            5 months ago

            Nextcloud is a lot of things. A bit overkill for just it’s office offering tbh. But, if it fits your workflow, and you like other things it offers go for it. The snap package actually makes it very easy to tinker with (despite the deserved hate of snaps in general).

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        5 months ago

        Honestly Markdown is perfectly fine 99% of the time. It also has many advantages by just being much simpler

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          While I agree with you that LaTeX is an impressive tool, I would not choose it for an exam whith a short duration. It is great, but for short documents that should be written quickly, I don’t think it’s the best tool.

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            5 months ago

            I (almost) only use LaTeX now, I find it easier than having to manually set headings etc. I find it great even for just one page notes.

            The few times I do not use it is when I have to colab on a document with someone else.

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      5 months ago

      It sounds insane to me they would use a suite where they have no control over its state… Can’t they at least block the updates? Just imagine you’re a student and your success depends on the incompetence of others

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        your success depends on the incompetence of others

        This is an excellent lesson to learn in school since it happens a lot in life.

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          5 months ago

          Far enough, but if it was at work or something you can at least say, ‘eh at least I still get paid’ Here you have no recourse options.

          edit: Having read the translation now. It seems the students do have a choice in which software suite they use. So I guess they did have a recourse. So in the end it was their own responsibility. I guess it was a good lesson then.

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            Here you have no recourse options

            I can’t speak for every University, but some have a way for you to appeal issues like this to the Dean.

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              5 months ago

              Just a note to avoid some confusion some people may have: gymnasium in denmark is roughly the same as high schools in the US. While I’m sure the problem also affects university students, the focus of this article is on the high school students specifically.

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        5 months ago

        I would imagine they have a similar setup as here in Norway (who’s also experiencing this issue) where the students own the machine and they aren’t centrally managed, especially the Mac’s

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          Yeah I assumed they would be centrally managed, but they are not apparently. So then I don’t really see why they would get a time extension to be honest. You could easily game that then and just fake it crashing.