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I like to think of libreoffice calc as a spreadsheet program, it’s for running calculations on cells, that’s it.

Excel was, but is no longer, just a spreadsheet program. Many things have been smashed into it that could have been better implemented separately, but when you’re trying to tie down all office work to your single office suite, a hammer’s gotta hammer. So they hammered a lot of those uses into excel to keep office workers tied to it. Admittedly, that does make it easier for office work since you don’t need to train employees in multiple programs, you give them excel and teach them functions as they need them.

I think office workers would love better tools. The problem is that most programs need to be approved by IT

https://itsfoss.com/systemd-free-distros/

The antix linux call gets stronger and stronger for me everyday. I have it on a 23 year old laptop and it runs quite well, although it isn’t as clean as a using a full DE. While I do like running an enterprise grade OS, I’m happy to ditch any weak-willed organization that won’t stand up for itself or it’s users and become a radical antifascist communist cypherpunk hippie anarchist (on the outside).

For a little perspective, if you have 7200 RPM HDDs, they each only have a throughput of about 1.5 Gbps. USB 3.0 is 5 Gbps, so you can have 3 drives attached without maxing out a single USB connection, and that’s the older 3.0, not any of the newer USB specifications that can go up to 20 gbps, and this isn’t including thunderbolt specs. If this data is mostly sent over the network you’ll never see any impact from this unless you have a 10Gb home network. Getting things onto the drives might take a little longer than a direct connection, but if storage is more of a concern (I’m assuming it is, since you have HDDs instead of SSDs) that’s a perfectly fine trade off in my mind.

If it worked out, the idle Windows 11 RAM usage would’ve been around 4.8GB

That’s still a lot