• katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    10 months ago

    libreoffice works just as good though i expect the majority of people are already using something on the web like google docs or something

    adobe, agreed, unfortunately. adobe as a company is terrible but the software is great (thanks to macromedia)

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      10 months ago

      I never felt OpenOffice and libreoffice were a decent replacement for MS office. It was too different in many ways and compatibility was never top. Since I moved to softmaker (not OSS), I’ve been happier.

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        10 months ago

        How has your experience been with the softmaker alternative to excel? Do all the functions translate well? I just took a peak at their site and it looks dramatically better than libreoffice but I’d never heard of it before.

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          10 months ago

          I haven’t used it that’s extensively but for every of my needs, it performed great.

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      10 months ago

      Libreoffice (and the hot garbage that is libreCalc) is not at all equivalent to the Microsoft alternatives.

      Maybe for the HS student who don’t know any better.

      But it’s a mess for business.

      My company did a major switch to Linux, then THOUSANDS of tickets complaining about broken spreadsheets and word docs forced a lot of employees to secretly use Google Docs/Google Sheets. We had a company mandate/all-hands-on-deck to find a alternative. And now we have a hodgepodge of other BS, with tribes wanting us to get a Microsoft Office subscriptions, others pushing for forking another open-source suite, web devs building our own spreadsheet program, and accountants still secretly using Google Suite.

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        10 months ago

        others pushing for forking another open-source suite

        why don’t they just contribute to LibreCalc and make it better?

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          10 months ago

          Typical “why don’t you fix it” Linux attitude.

          I contribute to open source, in places I’m experienced in.

          LibreOffice has it’s own culture and world. Stuff that isn’t for me.

          To say it’s a good replacement for office is a lie.