It’s for my mother, who so far cannot stand LibreOffice.
While I personally love LibreOffice, I get why your mom might not. It’s super easy:
- Download and install Office
- run
irm https://massgrave.dev/get | iexin Powershell and follow the instructions - Profit!
What doesn’t she like about LibreOffice, out of curiosity? It’s easy to make the layout like Office (View > User Interface > Tabbed) if that’s her problem - I felt the exact same way, but the second I found out I could do that, I never went back.
What’s this do? Been linux only for like 12 years and don’t keep up with office
Massgrave is a tool that can create legit (oem) keys for windows and office out of thin air*
- it’s not literally creating them from nothing, it’s using a system Ms themselves run to get working keys. Evidently they don’t have a huge problem with it.
Turns out the powershell step is enough to get 97% of users to shell out cash.
And also, the biggest source of revenue is institutions who either will pay for the enterprise license, or can be sued for a good payday if they try to pirate.
I don’t even understand why, it literally easier to crack, no need for an account
It literally easier to crack
It is not easier for almost every human on the planet.
I would pay to not use PowerShell, but I’m a Linux user so I don’t need to :)
I never knew about this. How did you find out about this method?
I’m terminally online
Yeah please teach me how you found it so I can be as resourceful as you. I’m not really interested in your self deprecation. Thank you.
Not OP, but I’m aware of it just from seeing it mentioned in threads like this. There might be a community or list available showing all these cool things but a lot of the time it just goes around by word-of-mouth.
:(
But, seriously, I’m pretty obsessed with piracy stuff and have spent an insane amount of time poring over lists like FMHY so it’s like trivia to me now
Done this a while ago for my brother who needed Office for work but isn’t as tech minded as I am. It’s honestly a fantastic tool, kudos to the creator!
It might sound like a pretty obvious thing, but have you tried changing the tools into the “Tabbed ribbon” that office uses instead of the classic old 90s organization scheme in options ?
I have come to notice that when people who don’t really work with computers very well, in particular boomers, say that they can’t stand LibreOffice, they mean they don’t like the layout of the tools, because they can’t find anything they need. I suppose they just got used to where everything is with modern office.
Just change it and see if she will like it better. Usually solves it for the boomers i help. Nothing is holding LibreOffice back more than their default layout scheme. They really don’t know their target audience’s pain points AT ALL. Just goes to show why you need to study your users using the product without being explained anything.
I don’t get why their default is a layout that has been outdated for 24 years. Nostalgia or what? Only really old people who used computers in the 90s a lot will intuitively find it useful.
You could tell your mom the real price of MS office. She might suddenly stand LibreOffice just fine.
