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You should read the post. > if you use it day after day to do your job, the $150/year cost is basically nothing [...] [Excel] Just Works™. From the post: >
by lucb1e 7y ago
You should read the post.
> if you use it day after day to do your job, the $150/year cost is basically nothing [...] [Excel] Just Works™.
From the post:
> It’s not that I’m cheap either, I just want something that works according to my preferences, not Microsoft’s.
See the post for details about what's wrong with Microsoft's Office offering.
The author even goes on to say:
> I took the $319 I was about to spend on an Office license and I donated it to the LibreOffice project, and will just continue to do so every time I have to go through this process.
I really don't think they're as cheap as you make them out to be.
And I agree with the sentiment. I'd also be fine to pay for it, but I don't want to have to struggle with emulation layers to get Microsoft's crap to work on a non-Microsoft supported operating system (it's not as if I can compile it myself), when there is a perfectly fine alternative that does not rely on being a monopoly. If someone has a layout issue with my document, the solution is very simple. If someone has a layout issue with Microsoft-made documents, they expect the other party to pay over a hundred bucks just to open one document (it doesn't happen more than once a year to me, so they're asking me to pay that for one document). This scheme only works if there is a monopoly because those people wouldn't actually themselves pay for two or three licenses just to open other people's documents.
For me, LibreOffice also works better (ever tried opening a CSV in Excel? It comes out wrong 90% of the time and I don't know how, or if, you can change it; LibreOffice Calc just gives you a dialog with the csv settings and a preview of the result), in part because I'm used to it and no longer used to newer Office versions, it aligns with my ideology more, and on top of all that it's free.
"Even if [one] is just marginally better than [the other], if you use it day after day to do your job" then indeed it's a no-brainer to use LibreOffice instead of pay money for an inferior product.