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In general "Office" applications are a bad solution to any problem, so not using them at all is best. For text, Markdown with inline semantic HTML if necessary
by devit 4y ago
In general "Office" applications are a bad solution to any problem, so not using them at all is best.
For text, Markdown with inline semantic HTML if necessary and CSS stylesheets if needed is better, since it properly separates style and presentation unlike word processors.
For modelling, Jupyter-like notebooks are much better than spreadsheets since they properly label objects, don't make everything a 2D grid, and use a proper programming language.
For data, databases are better than spreadsheets.
Presentations are just documents, so there is no reason to use separate software.
For drawing you can use Inkscape and Gimp.
For collaboration you can use normal distributed version control like Git (with solutions like self-hosted Gitlab).
- kayodelycaon 4y agoNone of these solutions with work with non-programmers. Except maybe Gimp? Most people in offices don’t do image editing…
- gtf21 4y agoLike some other posters, this is a great dream, but just like I'm not going to teach all my sales, ops, etc. people to write docs in LaTeX and do version control with git, I'm not going to take them off "Office" suites without incurring an enormous productivity burden for zero gain.