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[–] 82 points 3 months ago (27 children)

I like using LibreOffice instead. Open source is always the way to go.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 months ago (9 children)

    Someone ought to update the spreadsheet program. Excel is the primary reason companies are stuck on MS Office.

    Excel isn't even that great and could be improved greatly, but unfortunately LibreOffice Calc is even worse currently.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

    I fucking hate that it is named calc and it’s 50/50 if it orders itself above the calculator when I search for it.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago

    MS also has broken and depreciated a lot of Excel's functionality, yet it's still the standard. People just hate change, especially the ones that aren't actually using the product directly.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Agreed, my mom uses spreadsheets for things. Eventually just ended up paying for Office Home and Student 2024 because Calc confused her. Though when I helped her install Office, I did notice that she hadn't updated LibreOffice in over two years. Wish I had noticed before she paid for Office to see if the updates for Calc might have fixed her issue. Also wish I had installed OnlyOffice to see if it might have matched the "feel" of Excel better before giving MS money.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    Also wish I had installed OnlyOffice to see if it might have matched the “feel” of Excel better before giving MS money.

    It's shockingly similar in a lot of ways. Just barely different enough to not get sued, I'd imagine.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    Sadly I have to agree. Being able to take my excel work home with me, where I use Linux exclusively, is the sole reason that I'm forced to use OnlyOffice vs LibreOffice. It has better compatibility with Excel by a WIDE margin.

    That being said, I don't have the issue with OnlyOffice that others seem to have. It's desktop app is still OpenSource, it's just the online bits and collaboration stuff that isn't. But I'd still rather go with a non-profit like the Document Foundation than a for profit company any day of the week.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    Are you kidding? LibreOffice just doubled their prices

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago* (3 children)

    I have the free version.

    Edit: wait a minute, I just did a Google search and it said libre office is still free. Are you trolling or joking, lol?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    It sounds like you might be pirating it. Go ahead and fax the creators $100 for a home license. Dont forget to shred the money after faxing and take a video for proof.

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  • [+] -6 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    OpenOffice is another open source alternative that looks a bit more like Microsoft Office suite, and I think it also supports more file extensions than libreoffice(?)

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    LO is a fork of OO after there was a spat (it's been like, at least 15y now); LO is the successor, most have migrated long ago

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Weird, I found OO was a better and more modern experience than LO.

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  • [–] 32 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    This is for commercial users, so if your company mandates MS Office, none of the free alternatives are much use.
    On the plus side, the prices don't really matter to those end users, so anyone outside procurement won't notice any difference.

    Raising home user prices would lead to a lot more backlash, but I wouldn't put it past MS to try it anyway. They just can't seem to get out of their own way.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Not directly, but it still does matter to me. I'd rather my CEO buy a new car instead of giving even more money to Microsoft, as weird as that sounds.

    The real problem is that it makes it even more appealing for C-suiters to cut costs -- and C-suiters usually choose to reduce licence counts (read: firing people) instead of migrating away from Microsoft.

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    What's that? Microsoft encouraged people to use Open Source Office Suites? Hmm.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    nahhh, the people that would have already changed.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Wait, they charge extra for Teams? I honestly don't even know what plan I've got at work. It obviously has Teams, but other than that and Outlook I barely touch any of the other applications.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    They didn't originally, but at least in Europe they started getting some "monopolistic" threats and started to split it up. I'm not sure if they split them for all countries/markets and am too lazy to look it up right now.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago

    Is this just becoming c/news?

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    What are they going to do? Buy servers!?

    Board room erupts in laughter

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    And just like that, most businesses went back to pens and papers and other stationery products.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

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