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OMG, the usual FUD. Cannot here that anymore. If one depends on opening old MS documents, MS Office often fails while LibreOffice (LO) does the job -- been the
by GuestFAUniverse 1y ago
OMG, the usual FUD.
Cannot here that anymore.
If one depends on opening old MS documents, MS Office often fails while LibreOffice (LO) does the job -- been there, done that; e.g. book manuscripts of old professors who close to never migrate to newer versions, old calculations in Excel, etc.
Formatting isn't even the prime issue there. MS Office utterly fails -- for me that's _peak incompetence_: flooding the world with a overly complex format, that they cannot reliabily open themselves.
So, depending on the context LO _might_ be an issue, or it totally is the opposite: the go-to solution to a serious problem.
- e3bc54b2 1y ago> for me that's _peak incompetence_ Empires always fall from within. It was inconceivable for a young me to ever think of day when MS Office would be unworkable. Advance couple of decades and MS 365 Copilot is just the thing that just doesn't work. Not because somebody exploited a bug and created unviewable doc, but because MS decided to pile on bugs while leaving old ones in..
- euanc 1y agoLO may open old files, doesn't mean you're seeing the original/complete/"authentic" content https://natlib.govt.nz/records/46031753 https://natlib.govt.nz/records/46031753 Also, that reports highlights that yes most users don't use most rare features of office products, but many/most seem to use at least one