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The weird thing is that to a significant extent that battle is really just about the words "Microsoft Office". LibreOffice has some awkwardness and annoyances,
by BrenBarn 1y ago
The weird thing is that to a significant extent that battle is really just about the words "Microsoft Office". LibreOffice has some awkwardness and annoyances, but it's quite adequate for probably 90% of mundane office tasks people need to do (and MS Office has its own pain points). A major barrier is just a specific insistence that Word be used, without any reference to functional requirements of the actual document.
- jamiek88 1y agoPeople always say this but the 90% doesn’t count. The 90% is easy. It’s the other bit that people hit and compatibility issues mean any non standard approach whether it’s fair or not will always, always get the blame. Plus I dispute that libreoffice has even close to 90% of what excel can do.
- roscas 1y agoLet's not compare the advanced options of Excel or how Excel bugs annoy me. There are loads of them. Let's just compare what people do when they need a tool like Excel. That's when the 90 or maybe more % of people will do. That is what I do. Everything I do in Excel can be done on LibreCalc. So it is true that LibreCalc can replace 90% or more, because not everybody needs those advanced topics. Same for the other LibreOffice apps, Writer is good for almost everybody. As LibreDraw and others.
- bee_rider 1y agoI’ve never met a document an office document that wouldn’t have been better as a wiki (if it is intended to be impermanent), or as a something like a LaTeX document (if it is not).
- SV_BubbleTime 1y agoDoesn’t matter what you think (or I). The real world runs on MS Office.
- upboundspiral 1y agoI've found that OnlyOffice has much better Microsoft Office compatibility. I just install it via flatpak, remove the network permission, and go about my business perfectly. While LibreOffice -> LibreOffice works perfectly fine, whenever it opens a .docx file it always wants to save it as a .odf which is a nonstarter. Not because I don't want to support open document formats but because everyone expects a .docx back if they send you one. It also struggles consistently for any type of advanced formatting (as a .docx).
- SV_BubbleTime 1y agoRemove the network permission by what mechanism? I only know firejail or this (iirc)
- upboundspiral 1y agoinstall via flatpak (which uses bubblewrap iirc for sandboxing) and use flatseal to remove the network permission. You can also manually edit this through .local/share/flatpak/overrides.