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Meanwhile in the free/open source world, LibreOffice works about anywhere and LaTeX works on my old chrooted chromebook, allowing me to write all my university
by antoineMoPa 9y ago
Meanwhile in the free/open source world, LibreOffice works about anywhere and LaTeX works on my old chrooted chromebook, allowing me to write all my university stuff on a ~$300 computer.
- reacweb 9y agoAnd it can handle documents with equations created more than 20 years ago. I know a couple of math teachers who went to latex because of incompatibilities of the different version of equation editors in word.
- nomercy400 9y agoBut then you decide to save your Libreoffice Impress presentation with lines in pptx and discover that after reopening your lines are gone. Then again, maybe I shouldn't save in pptx.
- williamscales 9y agoJust make your presentation with LaTeX! Then your lines will work forever.
- extra88 9y ago> maybe I shouldn't save in pptx Yes, you could save to PDF, your presentation won't suffer from the lack of transitions between slides. It does mean if you want to reveal one bullet at a time, having one page for each reveal.
- jacquesm 9y agoI run my whole business on open source. Linux for the computers, libreoffice for the documents, Thunderbird + mail-in-a-box for email services. Works like a charm.
- swarnie_ 9y agoGood for a student but try proposing this to an enterprise of 10k staff.
- castle-bravo 9y agoHere's my pitch: LibreOffice can do everything MS Office can do and it'll save you 2.3M$ up front.
- romanovcode 9y agoBut it can't tho. Also, you would have to train your staff. You make it sound way easier than it actually would.
- adrianN 9y agoYou have to train your staff for MS products as well.
- adrianN 9y agoWhat makes you think that LibreOffice is not okay for an enterprise?