Microsoft Office is adding in AI? Spreadsheets can take a lot of work to create, I can just imaging an AI tool going in the messing one little thing up, and it being near impossible to find the error. Or not even know your calculations aren't being done the way you want.
this post was submitted on 26 Mar 2025
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Excel is maybe the one place I can see AI being useful because lots of people can describe what they want a spreadsheet to do but not actually do it.
I just wouldn't trust it to do it right
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Besides the jank, you can set up libreoffice inside a docker container and server it over https. There you now have cheap-ass MS365.
There's also a network version of LO.
We should all get Signal as well. If you don't have it you'll probably be surprised how many of your contacts do.
Nice try Hegseth
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Hopefully more of us make donations. Free is good, but it's nice to contribute even small amounts to your well used FOSS apps
If you're a nerd, also check out Typst and LaTeX. Being able to format your documents with pure code is awesome, and you can also define functions for different things, import libraries to generate graphs, and write comments that don't show up in the document.
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For me it was about freedom, and not being locked into the Microsoft sphere.
Good. Finally. It's about time.
I managed to get my father in law to fully switch to libreoffice, which is in itself a great achievement, as he’s almost 70 and he used to be an msoffice user for most of his adult professional life.
Libreoffice is just great and Europe should start backing and using more open source, non greedy corporate backed projects.
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I’ve gradually been switching over. The UI is somewhat confusing in my experience- but the MSO UX+UI is consistently getting much, much worse as time passes
My biggest pet peeve is since it's a suite rather than separate programs, there's only one path for saving files that's saved. So you can't have Writer save to a different location from Calc automatically.
As someone with a lot of files and folders, and a hatred of having to click around too much, this annoys the shit out of me. But I don't think there's any way around it because of how the program was created. It's literally the one thing keeping me from switching.
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LibreCalc and python for the win! I just love from bs4 import BeautifulSoup, import json, import re, import urllib.request.
FOSS software will win eventually. It may take time, but if good FOSS software is being built by enthusiasts then a time will come where proprietary software fucks up. And when it does, FOSS is ready to take it's place. And as soon as FOSS has become a standard in some field, why would there ever be a need to go back to proprietary?
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I love Libre so much
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I have to say I'm one of them. Cancelled my office subscription and an trying to avoid making the same mistake again. It was convenient though.