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- BuyFromEU@europe.pub
cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/12592
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I’m not a fan of people applying nationalism to open source software. I get this is a reaction to another country’s nationalism but it really undermines what open source software is all about.
Yea, The Document Foundation is based in Germany. But Libre Office is an international collaborative open source project, with contributors in many countries.
Open source projects dont have a nationality. Even the ones with organisations based in the USA. And if people really are concerned about US based legal orgs then we should be looking at forking the software.
Its already under open source licences and belongs to everyone regardless of nationality.
Uuuh this is about closed source Microsoft Office Vs open source Libre Office which just happen to be from Germany and thus is the reason why this is posted in this community.
Any accountants use LibreOffice Calc? Is it a good excel replacement? I just downloaded it this week but haven’t tested it yet.
It works great. Not much difference.
Yeah nah. I maybe for light weight every day use yeah. But MS Office is a beast for pros.
And they have excel. Nothing beats excel.
I’m not a pro but all the people I know that use it say excel is the best by far
MS Office is scriptable with basic. LibreOffice, on the other hand, supports basic, python, js, beanshell.
Both software have there advantages. Scientific research is often done on Linux, and they use LibreOffice. In University, we also used it, because they said it has better functions for our use-case.
Universities use it because it’s free
LibreOffice is a really chunky and ugly piece of software.
During the pandemic, my job handed out Linux laptops with open source software like libreOffice, and after a month, people were secretly using Google Sheets.
Yeah, “upgrade” is a strong word for something that’s ugly as sin and just about as unintuitive to use
It’s only unintuitive to you because you memorized how things work in MS Office.
I don’t use office lol
Personally I’ve had an issue with LibreOffice mainly in that it tends to be more unstable and clunky. It oftentimes goes unresponsive on me and has crashed a time or two when loading larger files, but that may be because I’m running it in Windows so I dunno
I imported a 10,000 line csv and every time I scrolled, half the data wouldn’t update. From scrolling.
It’s pretty unusable for me.
I tried to copy and paste from one spreadsheet to another and it would crash. Didn’t matter if I was copying 100 cells or 1, or if it was a blank sheet.
libreoffice is great! onlyoffice is good too if you like more compatability with office and docx, but it’s more geared toward online services and subscriptions.
I haven’t used LibreOffice in quite some time in favor of OnlyOffice because of how it handles MS Office formatting. Is the formatting situation better for LibreOffice now?
Lol no. It still lacks many of the formatting tools that MS Office has, and documents originally created in MS will frequently get messed up. I use LibreOffice because it’s FOSS, but I’m not going to pretend it’s functionally better than MS Office, because it’s not by almost every metric.
The reason why OpenDocument format is enforced in MS Office, is because it enforces compatibility. Tell everyone who uses docx to stop promoting a proprietary software, they have the option to save to a neutral file format.
Now if they could do the same for Gimp. What a UX mess.
Isn’t Krita considered the better open source image editor now? I keep meaning to learn it.
As of now, there is only Gimp. And it’s very bad.
Good marketing point: LibreOffice has NO ENSHITTIFICATION! Great!
LO is good software.
It replaced MSOffice Word for me (and I had been using Word since the early 90s). It also has a few extensions one may want to consider adding. Stuff like extra dictionaries for example, or better (than the default provided) ePub/HTML export tools.
Libreoffice is amazing. I had dismissed it ages ago back when I had no reason to boycott the US, but now I tried it again after switching to Linux and it works amazingly good.
There’s no need for MS Office for personal use, though unfortunately for my large corporate employer it probably isn’t going to realistically be considered.
I use libreoffice but man libreoffice writer is so finnicky. Formatting is all wonky. Definitely not a 1:1 replacement. It will format things differently than if you opened it in word
I was using Microsoft Word on and off since 6.0 (shipped with Office 4.0), and no version of Microsoft Word was formatting your documents in the same way that the other versions did, and the same version liked to break things on different version of Windows, and sometimes ever on the same version of Windows on the other computer, because locale settings were different.
That being said, Word is a toy that can be replaced with just basically any word processing software (unless you need multiplayer editing from the Sharepoint), it’s the Excel which is the true strength of MS Office, and unfortunately it’s irreplaceable by anything that isn’t purpose-built database processing software.
Excel doesn’t do anything very well, but it can do everything that the twisted minds of the upper management can imagine, and in the hands of person experienced enough and mad enough (and you will become mad enough after couple years of VBA) the possibilities are endless.
LibreOffice Calc on the other hand is limited to 1024 columns, which is a hard limit I hit more than once, and external database integrations are real PITA.
LibreOffice Calc on the other hand is limited to 1024 columns, which is a hard limit I hit more than once, and external database integrations are real PITA.
Might be time to learn an actually programming language and take a database course brother
No issues with Libre Office, but isn’t the point of this scene that homelander really is a downgrade?
He isn’t a downgrade, he is stronger using the other guys DNA. He is mentally effed though, as a result of being brought up in a lab and tested on to see his limits.
How does it stack to Open Office? Got that years ago & it’s been treating me well.
LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice and most developers went to work on LibreOffice instead. You should consider switching to LibreOffice.
So… we supposed to be rooting for Homelander now?
No it’s just saying libre office kills babies
Is that how it loads so fast?
No, it’s bloated as shit so it uses techniques from 2000s java to keep a good portion of it in memory at all times from boot to shutdown.
Try loading a portable version of libre office (ie if you have admin rights issues). It’s a solid ten second cold load on a 2 year old system.
It’s not like Solider Boy is great either lol.
No, certainly not. I’m just pointing out that with context this meme template means something very different to what it says on the surface.
Unless OP’s point is that LibreOffice is more functional but much, much worse for society while there are better options just off-screen, in which case fair enough and well played.
I wouldn’t over think it. It’s just about the line used. The same way people use the Spider-Man template where he sees clearly with his glasses even though in the scene he sees better without them.
I feel like a meme academic lmao. “Well, yes, but the colloquial usage of templates often aren’t a one-to-one with what’s being shown, in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man,”
