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Which proprietary software do you prefer over their open-source alternatives, and why? (lemmy.ml)
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[โ€“] 32 points 3 years ago (3 children)

Excel. There's just basic stuff with LibreOffice and OnlyOffice that work like crap. Like why in LibreOffice when I type =sum then hit tab does it think I'm done with the formula instead of adding the ( and letting me put in the first input. It's awful.

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Honestly anything I can't do easily in Google docs probably means I should just do it in Python anyway.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 3 years ago

    I need spreadsheets for work in commercial loan underwriting. We don't have a commercial underwriting system yet so all our templates are excel based. I waited to move to Linux solely because of Excel when working from home. During COVID though my work finally gave everyone laptops so I didn't need to do work on my personal rig anymore.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 3 years ago

    I am a big fan of LibreOffice in general and there is not much I need that I cannot do. That said, I agree that Calc has lots of little usability paper cuts like the one you describe that make using Excel a lot more pleasant.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Libre office's filtering is far better though- being able to apply actual regex instead of Excel's weird proprietary pattern matching is just so much better that I opt for it most of the time.

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