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So em dashes are for pauses or highlighting things I guess? The en dash you explained in your reaction. Is there any other use for the hyphen except for making lists?
I think that there could be even more then a fingerprint in those messages.
It’s this video: https://youtu.be/5CKuiuc5cJM?is=9VQ1FCxY_X3eNm-b
Warning: They anthropomorphize a lot in this video, but I get it… the words exist, why not use them.
I’m prly not the targeted audience, sailing for more then 30 years.
She is not a power user. Working inside a container running Windows just to display MS Word introduces complexity. separate file systems, etc. Sometimes the abstraction breaks, and you "fall out" of the app and end up staring at a Windows environment. It is very confusing for a layperson. On top of that, the RAM overhead was significant for her older laptop.
She is a kindergarten teacher. The last thing she can use is friction on her laptop.
We didn't try LibreOffice. I'm familiar with it, but the learning curve/transition is just too much friction. They also share a lot of documents with colleagues. I don't know the current state of compatibility between MS Office and LibreOffice, but I recall layouts breaking regularly. She also has a library of templates originally created in MS Office.
MS Office and most popular multiplayer games are the 2 biggest hurdles for Linux adoption at the moment.
That could have changed by now.