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Are there any alternatives for which these criticisms don’t apply? I use both MS Office and Libre Office and your point applies to both. I guess almost four de
by phs318u 2y ago
Are there any alternatives for which these criticisms don’t apply? I use both MS Office and Libre Office and your point applies to both.
I guess almost four decades of the same UI paradigm for such an incredibly widely used software category makes it difficult to conceive of new paradigms.
- bediger4000 2y agoLibreOffice is an example of Stross' criticism that every "word processor" is a pale imitation of "Word", because of "Word's" status as the Standard Business Word Processor. Personally, I kept my resume in troff input format for a long time, because I thought the result looked pretty good on paper. I have never purchased "Word" for myself, only suing it at the office. I may not be a fount of knowledge in this area.