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Word 97 was amazing and leagues beyond LibreOffice, IMO. The best part is that the entire installed size of word 97 is like 50mb!

• rhizome 4y ago
  Wonder how it works in Wine.
  • gombosg 4y ago
    Perfectly, according to test results! :P https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=68 https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iI...
• Lio 4y ago
  This is a really interesting opinion. Would you mind elaborating? I don’t really use either Word or LibreOffice much as my needs are really simple, (I mostly get away with just plaintext tools). What is it that separates these two for you? Is it some specific missing features you rely on or something to do with UX?
  • jjoonathan 4y ago
    I periodically check on LibreOffice to see if it's usable and typically I don't last more than a minute or two without hitting a major show-stopper. Last time I tried LibreOffice Writer, the text didn't render until after I stopped typing. The time before that, LibreOffice Calc took 3 seconds to begin editing any cell. It's a common problem with Open Source: who does the slog work of testing, tracking down, and fixing the simple bugs and perf issues? Evidently, LibreOffice doesn't have enough maintainer cycles to have good coverage of common setups. It's unfortunate and as a developer I feel for them, but as a user it makes paying Microsoft an easy choice.