Creative Commons free software

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I'd strongly suspect that some people here do know this already - but also that some don't and maybe rather conventional people in Job Centres or other advisers aren't going to tell you because they don't know either.

What I'm on about is I'm thinking that the first barrier to learning a new skill might be affording the software with the ever-increasing prices of the well-known names.

There is an 'alternative internet' where everything is free, starting with the operating system Linux. Personally I never got the hang of Linux but you don't need Linux to use free software available for Windows. Gimp is the free Photoshop and Libre Office and Open Office are the MS Office look-alikes.

https://www.openoffice.org/

https://www.libreoffice.org/

Pass on what the exact relationship between the two is, but LibreOffice has a word processor, spreadsheets, Impress for presentations, Base the database, Draw for diagrams and Math for formulae.