LMAO (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 226 points 3 weeks ago (27 children)

LibreOffice is available for MacOs. So I don't see the problem.

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  • [–] 96 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    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 πŸ˜‚

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  • [–] 7 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    The issue is that working with docx files in libreoffice is less ideal than working with their native format.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    but the meme is not about odt files

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 37 points 3 weeks ago (18 children)

    Sir, this is a meme community.

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  • [–] 30 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

    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.

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  • [+] [S] -11 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    Sir, this is a meme community.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    I’m going to need to see some ID son

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  • [–] 10 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

    "it's a meme"

    No it's not, it's a screenshot of a confusing exchange.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)
  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago* (3 children)

    That may be true also, but no one posted me with the caption "lmao"

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  • [–] 32 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 weeks ago

    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.

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