So you are not using office, you are using a web application that gives you a “window” into microshit 365. Then of course you wouldn’t be able to do anything with LibreOffice but I guarantee you your IT is just one exploit away from an expensive nightmare. I would quit such a job right away if I had an option not to starve.

Whatever you tell yourself to sleep at night.

if I have to explain to you what the point of a technical device that you can self-administrate would be, then chances are you are not a software developer.

Yes? And what would prevent the sharing here?

document compatibility issues

Those can be avoided for all documents and presentations that are not written by multiple people at the same time. In practice, such use cases exist, though - but in order to enable my own full productivity I have managed to cut those ties.

in an IT position I wouldn’t be able to replicate issues a user is facing

Having to support users of Nadella-Assholesoft (NA) is a whole different issue. No one can reasonably expect to have any job relief because they hate NA when they sign up for an IT support position for NA.

The benefits of Linux for me (no ads, no telemetry, familiarity of the terminal and config files, open source, privacy, sticking it to big tech, etc.) just don’t translate into things that would make me more productive at work.

You are obviously prioritizing what’s important to you. That’s pretty normal. However, anyone who wants to and can switch, your switch, fighting the uphill battle to get Linux more widespread. Especially now that the divided states of southern northern america have gone off the deep end and turned full-scale fascism. Any silicon valley oligarch product you manage to cut from your life will protect the lives of innocents in america and elsewhere in the world (palestine, for one).

Convenience is no longer a good option when it comes with fascism and support of genocidal regimes.

There are collaborative tools in Office that are used by the sorts of people who don’t know what LibreOffice is.

I know. But I do not see how those would keep the knowledgeable people from working in LibreOffice and saving their documents in OOXML.

There’s also certain internal policies that tend to classify information in ways that work with Office.

If an organization relies on “classifying information in ways that work with Office”, the IT security probably has no idea what they are doing.

you literally asked “how” people could avoid nadella-asshole-microshit software

-> technical device - for productive employees that’s an actual option, but you may have to prove to the organization that they benefit from enabling your full potential

only in jobs were you’d be looking for a way out. The only things you can’t do in LibreOffice is be 100% layout identical with the same document opened in Nadella-asshole-soft office (but still you get reasonably close), use macros (and people who create documents with non-VBA macros deserve to be slapped anyways) or use VBA (that’s the real downside, especially in spreadsheet calculations). LibreOffice Basic isn’t really practical to use, sadly.

well 'scuse you, but you said you were a software developer. any SW dev worth their money can at the very least get a self-administrated technical device not to be hooked up to the intranet, because corporate IT sucks donkeyballs.

? How? -> LibreOffice

Oh this is so good…

Is it against the terms of service / use? If not - fair play to them. It’s stupid, but it’s easy to fix by adjusting the terms & conditions, and when they are in violation, completely deny all services to their ip range.