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Open source is great, but LibreOffice is a nightmare to use when you want to any actual work. I feel for the German bureaucrats.
by moolcool 3y ago
Open source is great, but LibreOffice is a nightmare to use when you want to any actual work. I feel for the German bureaucrats.
- mglz 3y agoWhat issues for example?
- bzzzt 3y agoDid they fix the unusable slow rendering on retina Macs yet? Couldn't even normally scroll through a blank document last time I tried...
- lucumo 3y agoI'm not sure if this still current, but a few years ago I switched from LibreOffice to MS Office because Calc was unbearably slow. I wasn't doing anything crazy, but also not trivial: 6 or 7 sheets, with a bunch of formulas with never more than about 500 cells filled (10 columns, 50 lines), and on most sheets a lot less. Excel blazes through it. I feel it was a very good decision, even though I'm a miser.
- _aavaa_ 3y agoYup. The word and powerpoint replacements are workable, but Calc is excruciatingly slow. I pity the accounting departments.
- buovjaga 3y agoProfiling and fixing Calc perf issues happens all the time, so do file reports: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/BugReport https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/BugReport
- Avamander 3y agoNo fractional scrolling. No tolerable (color) templates for graphs.
- underlipton 3y agoI once had a bug that wiped a handful of documents. Spent hours writing them, opened them a few months later and they were blank. In some cases, it replaces all of the characters with #s. It's something to do with the autosave feature, I believe.
- pigpang 3y agoI have the opposite issue - if I want to work on a document or sheet, I open it in LibreOffice, because it is intuitive to use for me. I use office rarely, so I have no time to memorize how to use MS Office properly, while LibreOffice can be used out of box.