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Sorry, but LibreOffice remains a pale shadow of Microsoft Office. While I tend to agree, the premise here is mainly 'is a poster child' and not 'is at least as
by stinos 5y ago
Sorry, but LibreOffice remains a pale shadow of Microsoft Office.
While I tend to agree, the premise here is mainly 'is a poster child' and not 'is at least as good or better than alternatives'. Just looking at LibreOffice without comparing it, it is quite impressive what it can do. And even when comparing it, in a way it is still fairly impressive if you look at the resource thrown at it vs MS Office.
Pretty much the same goes for Audacity actually: go back 2 decades (well, a bit less) and compare it with the closed-source alternatives which existed back then and for anything but the simplest features it just wasn't usable. But it's steadily getting better and overall: indeed fairly impressive even though it is probably still quite behind professional packages.
- bartread 5y agoWell, the post I was responding to actually said that they thought these OSS products were at least as good as comparable commercial offerings which, in the case of LibreOffice, is entirely untrue. That's not to say when LibreOffice is viewed on its own merit's it's not a worthwhile product. And it might well be the best option on Linux... but Linux is a tiny minority of the desktop market. On Audacity I tend to agree with you. I keep it installed even though I also have Ableton simply because, as a basic sample editor, or where I need to do a format conversion, or a quick top and tail, or some normalisation, it's actually the better tool for those kinds of jobs. You can even use it as a multitrack recorder and sequencer at a push, but it definitely starts to fall apart as compared to commercial offerings at that point. Still, as a sample editor, it's a great tool.
- stinos 5y agoWell, the post I was responding to actually said that they thought these OSS products were at least as good as comparable commercial offerings which, in the case of LibreOffice, is entirely untrue. I stand corrected, I did misread that.