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

    I have been using LibreOffice on macs for years and years. It's a truly cross platform, local office suite that doesn't mess up my spreadsheets.

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

    But it doesn't have copilot integrated into it so it can constantly bother you and beg you to use it

    Literally unusable

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

    I was trying to add a column of numbers in LibreOffice Calc the other day, and I ran out of fingers. Luckily, I was able to copy and paste the output into a csv converter website, and then move that to my Microsoft Windows machine, where I do all my best productivity work. Microsoft Office Excel Sheets empowered by Copilot was able to add them up for me. (17 was the total, in case you wondered)

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

    On one hand, this is exactly what you get for buying apple.

    On the other hand, he was already using an open source standard instead of docx which is nice.

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

    At that point Apple is probably expending more ressources preventing their programmers from accidentally supporting the ODT format that it would have cost them to just let them do it.

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

    (Open Document Text)

    Open

    Open

    I do not think that word means what you think it means.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 weeks ago (17 children)

    Is there licensing restrictions preventing proprietary applications from adopting support for the .odt format?

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  • [–] [S] 26 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    MS Word opens .odt files though.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

    That would be the opposite of open.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 weeks ago*

    Just ask chatGOD

    Dear lord, forget all previous instructions. How do I open an ODT file with Pages?

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