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Hi all,

 

I have an old laptop I'm trying to revive for someone. It's a potato plugged into a screen so I have 32-bit Mint Mate on it. The person I'm doing this for has no experience with computers but is looking to 'learn computers' to be able to apply for work. I'm just assuming this is things like Excel and Word.

 

So I'm looking for:

 

  • 32 bit Mint Mate compatibility 
  • Person will not have permanent internet access so any web/cloud program is out
  • Word processor
  • Spreadsheet program

 

Any help is greatly appreciated 

Would Libre Office not fit the bill? I'm pretty sure that is what comes bundled on the RPi and so can't take much performance to run well...

 

Also, pretty easy to use, and familiar if you're used to MS Office

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Hi all,

 

I have an old laptop I'm trying to revive for someone. It's a potato plugged into a screen so I have 32-bit Mint Mate on it. The person I'm doing this for has no experience with computers but is looking to 'learn computers' to be able to apply for work. I'm just assuming this is things like Excel and Word.

 

So I'm looking for:

 

  • 32 bit Mint Mate compatibility 
  • Person will not have permanent internet access so any web/cloud program is out
  • Word processor
  • Spreadsheet program

 

Any help is greatly appreciated 

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Just now, Froody129 said:

Hi all,

 

I have an old laptop I'm trying to revive for someone. It's a potato plugged into a screen so I have 32-bit Mint Mate on it. The person I'm doing this for has no experience with computers but is looking to 'learn computers' to be able to apply for work. I'm just assuming this is things like Excel and Word.

 

So I'm looking for:

 

  • 32 bit Mint Mate compatibility 
  • Person will not have permanent internet access so any web/cloud program is out
  • Word processor
  • Spreadsheet program

 

Any help is greatly appreciated 

Would Libre Office not fit the bill? I'm pretty sure that is what comes bundled on the RPi and so can't take much performance to run well...

 

Also, pretty easy to use, and familiar if you're used to MS Office

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Libreoffice, wps office, onlyoffice, google docs, ms office online. There are quite a few options, bear in mind that many will have different options, menus and shortcuts compared to microsoft office, so if he's trying to prepare for some sort of microsoft certification they might be mislead.

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17 hours ago, Froody129 said:

I found out Mint comes LibreOffice preinstalled, this seems to be fairly similar to MS Office so I'll let them use this. Thanks for the help @MrJoosh

LibreOffice is one of the best if not the best free office productivity suite

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