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LibreOffice is available for MacOs. So I don't see the problem.
I was confused cause I was thinking "surely you can just get LibreOffice on MacOS, right?" Just did a quick look online and lo and behold, yep. I don't get the issue lol 😂
The issue is that working with docx files in libreoffice is less ideal than working with their native format.
but the meme is not about odt files
The post (not a meme) is about not being able to import odt into Pages, and the solution being having to first export to docx. Yeah they can just use libreoffice but that's not the point.
I don't know why did I end up writing that. I wanted to say docx instead of odt. I don't get why did I get upvotes even, itdoes not make sense that way.
Sir, this is a meme community.
"it's a meme"
No it's not, it's a screenshot of a confusing exchange.
not even particularly confusing, it's just two inexperienced users being inexperienced. it seems like it's only confusing people that know OpenOffice and LibreOffice have OS X versions but somehow don't know that not everyone knows what they're doing.
It is confusing to me because A) what's funny or interesting about this? B) how would one possibly know about libre office and not even know how to check if there's an osx version. Any idiot should be able to figure that out in moments.
But mostly A.
You're a confusing exchange.
That may be true also, but no one posted me with the caption "lmao"
gottem
1000 upvotes, 400 comments all pretending to get it
The meme isn't very good though
ThE mEmE iSnT vErY gOoD tHoUgH
It's ok, hun
No this is one *nix community trying to stir shit with another *nix community. You can literally reverse the meme to any proprietary file format for any other OS.
But.. it's not proprietary. The devs could just... read the spec and implement it. It's probably even easier than that if there are libraries to help.
You can install libreoffice using the nix package manager, but im unsure how this is relevant
Sir, this is a meme community.
I’m going to need to see some ID son
ODT?
Just going to drop this here, I feel like you may appreciate it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21TGB9Kk2VY
Likewise, if a Linux user needed to open existing .pages files, they’d likely be using LibreOffice as well.
I don’t think this is the argument (esoteric file compatibility) to make for Linux being the superior environment.
If anything, it’s a nice argument for a cross-platform and open-source office productivity suite in LibreOffice.
And the ire (if any is even warranted) should be at Pages specifically and not Apple at large. You can download LobreOffice just fine, or you can pay for Word. Heck, let’s give some love to Preview, the VLC of static documents.
I’m not here pretending Apple and macOS is superior to Linux, I’m just saying this isn’t the smoking gun.
I was about to ask.