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> The EU tech sector needs to build something better. LibreOffice and Linux as it stands is not it. I tried over and over again to use it but it’s just not good

> The EU tech sector needs to build something better. LibreOffice and Linux as it stands is not it. I tried over and over again to use it but it’s just not good. Can you elaborate? I have had quite a nice experience on the Linux ecosystem and with LibreOffice too. But there's usually a point where you realize that "this should've been a script" ™. I do concede that Excel pushes that point further down the road with what I remember to be better performance when working with bigger files, but by no means something so drastic.

atian 5y ago
> But there's usually a point where you realize that "this should've been a script" ™. There is less accountability for essential business functions that a product provides.
- hvgk 5y ago
  To be fair Microsoft have no accountability either. But it’s easier to tick the ISO 27001 or SOC compliance box when they pretend they have some accountability.
hvgk 5y ago
Well in my case there is always something hideously broken. For example I had a problem a couple of years back where libreoffice would take 3 minutes to open a sheet when my printer was turned on. Then there’s days where if I close the lid on the laptop I had to pray to all the gods of the disc that it’d wake up again without smiting me in some horrible way. And then there’s the usual face punch where I just want to solve a problem, not solve a whole tree of problems. I don’t work on anything exceptional really. It’s all simple stuff. But there’s just so many broken things all the time that I had to walk away. I’m writing this on the only tool I’ve got that doesn’t melt in my hands regularly, an ass end 9th gen ipad paired with a fairly old apple keyboard. It just works. This gives me more time to do things I actually derive value from in my life.
_dain_ 5y ago
>Can you elaborate? https://teddit.net/r/linux/comments/hioivn/libreoffice_is_still_garbage/ https://teddit.net/r/linux/comments/hioivn/libreoffice_is_st...

atian 5y ago

> But there's usually a point where you realize that "this should've been a script" ™. There is less accountability for essential business functions that a product provides.

hvgk 5y ago
To be fair Microsoft have no accountability either. But it’s easier to tick the ISO 27001 or SOC compliance box when they pretend they have some accountability.

hvgk 5y ago

Well in my case there is always something hideously broken. For example I had a problem a couple of years back where libreoffice would take 3 minutes to open a sheet when my printer was turned on. Then there’s days where if I close the lid on the laptop I had to pray to all the gods of the disc that it’d wake up again without smiting me in some horrible way. And then there’s the usual face punch where I just want to solve a problem, not solve a whole tree of problems. I don’t work on anything exceptional really. It’s all simple stuff. But there’s just so many broken things all the time that I had to walk away. I’m writing this on the only tool I’ve got that doesn’t melt in my hands regularly, an ass end 9th gen ipad paired with a fairly old apple keyboard. It just works. This gives me more time to do things I actually derive value from in my life.

_dain_ 5y ago

>Can you elaborate? https://teddit.net/r/linux/comments/hioivn/libreoffice_is_still_garbage/ https://teddit.net/r/linux/comments/hioivn/libreoffice_is_st...