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If you're willing to pay for a license, why not donate to the document foundation instead? This way you get a great office suite (Libreoffice) and every one get
by southerntofu 5y ago
If you're willing to pay for a license, why not donate to the document foundation instead? This way you get a great office suite (Libreoffice) and every one gets it too. A win-win situation?
- robertlagrant 5y agoPerhaps; I use LibreOffice myself. I was thinking of a business doing that rather than me personally.
- ivanmontillam 5y agoUnfortunately in this case, the UI/UX of LibreOffice not even comes close to MS Office's one. Some FOSS products are that great, but if you come from MS Office, LibreOffice feels a lot like an early 2000's downgrade. The compatibility and robustness of LibreOffice is excellent, but the UI/UX and something as simple as the default design templates that come with it, it's just not up to the level of MS Office, and customers do judge by that criteria. I wish LibreOffice was up that standard, so there would be more consumer choice. I even tried LibreOffice as my daily driver for sometime, and I just couldn't stand it.
- justsomehnguy 5y ago> the UI/UX of LibreOffice not even comes close to MS Office's one. Except 'Import CSV' wizard, it's light years ahead of MSO's one, which didn't changed for two decades. Which is understandable, nobody [from the corporate customers with tens thousands of users] cried loud enough. Also it doesn't even look good. MSO would use ClearType (and whatever) and looks good, LO looks like I'm in 1995 looking at 640x480 14" monitor.