MPV blows VLC out of the water when it comes to playback. After using it at work to sift through collectively hundreds of thousands of hours of video, waiting for VLC to do anything feels painful
Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts?
Tux960@lemmy.world 1 day ago
LibreOffice, OBS, and VLC are definitely the best out there. And Lichess (Online Chess platform) . Do you agree with me?
algorithmae@lemmy.sdf.org 7 hours ago
gigachad@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I feel PowerPoint is much more user friendly and functional than Impress
scheep@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I really like OnlyOffice, pretty much a carbon copy of the MS Office UI and doesn’t screw up on MS-specific files (docx, pptx, etc.)
Also, I like that OnlyOffice, unlike MS Office, has all the things in one app vs having separate apps for documents, spreadsheets, slides, etc. You can just tab between your different documents!
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I posted this in another thread yesterday but it’s relevant here too:
I have a small consultancy with several staff and work with documents and spreadsheets all day. We use LibreOffice exclusively.
Occasionally I encounter similar threads discussing the difference between LibreOffice and Microsoft Office, and the comments are all the same. So many people saying LibreOffice just “isn’t there yet”, or that it might be ok for casual use but not for power users.
But as someone who uses LibreOffice extensively with a broad feature set I’ve just never encountered something we couldn’t do. Sure we might work around some rough edges occasionally, but the feature set is clearly comparable.
My strongly held suspicion is that it’s a form of the dunning-kruger effect. People have a lot of experience using software-A so much so that they tend to overlook just how much skill and knowledge they have accumulated with that specific software. Then when they try software-B they misconstrue their lack of knowledge with that specific software as complexity.
That said, IDK if I’d go as far as to say LibreOffice is clearly the “best” because that’s subjective. IMO it’s certainly comparable and is a shining example of great FOSS. Hopefully LibreOffice enjoys some attention in the current move away from American products.
werbebanner@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I work with Microsoft Office on a daily basis for work, so professional use. I wanted to try LibreOffice privately, tried it and hat to notice that besides the terrible UI, there are many features missing and it’s just way clunkier. So I tried OnlyOffice, which had some features which I missed at LibreOffice, but now I’m missing other features…
So sadly, there isn’t a real competition for MS Office yet.
scheep@lemmy.world 1 day ago
OBS is foss? huh, never knew that. I use it all the time for screen recording
Unquote0270@programming.dev 1 day ago
Definitely lichess. It makes it very obvious how much of desperate cash cow chesscom is.
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 1 day ago
OBS is absolutely the best software in the field.
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
LibreOffice is also more compatible that Microsoft Word. It helped me and a friend to save his grandpa’s old writings that were stored in AppleWorks (.cwk) files.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Depends on your criteria. For slightly more demanding calculations, Calc just can’t handle it like Excel does. Then again, using spreadsheets for demanding calculations is just asking for trouble.
scheep@lemmy.world 1 day ago
also, I’ve never heard of Lichess. I might have to check that out
toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 1 day ago
i hoped someone would say second only to 7zip.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
LibreOffice only really became better after Microsoft started pushing Office365 which made standard MS Office a lot worse. They were on par with each other until then.
The others 100% were always better.
Dave@lemmy.nz 1 day ago
You sound like you know your LibreOffice.
My experience is they are quite different but I’ve been able to do the same things for the most part.
But how the hell do I make a pivot table that looks and functions as nice as the plain old default one in Excel?
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Excel is the one thing LibreOffice still falls behind on. It’s really hard to compete with Excel, specifically.
CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
Excel is probably the one sore spot for LibreOffice, but also Google’s suite and really everyone else. Excel is tough to beat, especially when you consider the additional power of things like Power Query and Excel on web having JavaScript functions.
That said: I truly despite pivot tables and I no longer use them. Like pie charts, they are usually useless.
Dave@lemmy.nz 20 hours ago
Whaaaaaaaat? Pivot tables are a 2 second job to summarise large amounts of transaction data or similar by month or year. Lookups or countifs would take so much longer!