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This is wasted effort IMHO. The killer app of Office is Excel and NOTHING has come close to replacing it. In India, almost all laptop manufacturers give the op
by sandGorgon 11y ago
This is wasted effort IMHO. The killer app of Office is Excel and NOTHING has come close to replacing it.
In India, almost all laptop manufacturers give the option of preloaded Ubuntu. Yet people choose to pay for Windows - for either Excel or Photoshop.
I would pay a large sum of money for a compatible spreadsheet. It is well worth doing a startup around.
Everything else - Word or PowerPoint already has reasonable substitutes. Even if it is as simple as a PDF doc.
But there is no substitute for Excel.
- huskyr 11y agoGoogle Sheets is quite pleasant to use, and sometimes i even prefer it over Excel. For larger data sets, it's lacking though.
- enobrev 11y agoI would pay full price for native adobe tools on ubuntu - especially now with the subscription pricing. My excel needs aren't as big and have mostly been covered by sheets in google docs. But that's personal need; I absolutely agree that excel is a beast. I've seen some amazing things put together by teams of "non-programmers" (in the professional sense) on excel.
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- unixhero 11y agoAlthough you're not wrong. Excel is the killer app. Word is ALSO the killer app for heavy lifting writing papers etc. It's the program I suffered the least in during my uni years, and I tried them ___ALL___. As an investment analyst for VC, I also need to make A LOT of powerpoint presentations. Not a lot of slides, but I need to convey complex points in a short amount of slides. This makes me push Powerpoint to its limits and it also comes with no REAL competition elsewhere, I've tried __every alternative__. Nothing comes close to the robustness of MS Office, unfortunately.
- sandGorgon 11y agoHmm interesting. I have had people switch over to keynote. What do you think about that?
- unixhero 11y agoIt sure is good :).