Comment on LibreOffice: We still see people on the fediverse recommending OpenOffice, despite it having year-old unfixed security issues

Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• SomethingBurger@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It is pretty much the same as 20 years ago. That is, good enough for basic use cases but nowhere near as complete as MS Office. It isn’t a serious program for professional use.

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  • sudoer777@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    For documents I started learning Typst and LaTeX a while ago and now I greatly prefer either of them over LibreOffice

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  • Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    LOL

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    • SomethingBurger@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Don’t laugh too loud, you’ll make LibreOffice Base crash somehow.

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      • Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Wouldn’t you like that, professional Word monkey?

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• dufkm@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  LibreOffice is good. Very good even. I just wish Calc always had a 1-to-1 feature parity with Excel for it’s formulas, it would make it so much easier to collaborate on a spreadsheet with others. I think I had to wait a few years on e.g. XLOOKUP.

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  • Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s true, Excel specifically is head and shoulders above anything excel-like.

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    • dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I prefer Google Sheets to Excel, but I still use LibreOffice Calc for everything anyway

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    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      LO beats it in python support

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• iarigby@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It looks the same as it did when I formed my opinion, and I keep checking it out on a yearly basis. I sincerely want to use it, but I get physical discomfort every time I open it. I have put a lot of effort into forcing myself to accept poorly designed foss alternatives but the look and feel of Libreoffice is simply intolerable.

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  • dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    it doesn’t feel that different than Word and Excel, tbh - I don’t know what you’re talking about

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    • iarigby@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I feel like you’re confusing the “look” with “layout”. Colors, margins, element sizes are not properly aligned, and it creates genuine physical discomfort

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      • dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        hm, if it’s not too much to ask, maybe a visual would help? Like, an example where Excel or some other program shows correct layout, and LibreOffice has incorrect?

        I haven’t had much discomfort with LibreOffice and I tend to be pretty OCD and I do UI work, so … maybe I’ve just ignored it - would like to learn, though!

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• RandomVideos@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I woudnt call a software where its hard to rotate an image “perfect”

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• daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s not. Installed and tried last month. A bug that’s alder that many people here with Fullscreen is still present.

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  • drspod@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Can you link the bug report please?

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    • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Here’s a forum post talking about it 10 years ago.

      ask.libreoffice.org/t/…/12096

      At least bug report was filled on 2021. It’s possible that other bug reports about this have been opened and closed through the years, bug still there.

      bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14283…

      Still unsolved. Creator of the bug report states that it has been around for years. Which I can verify, as it has happened to me for more than a decade too.

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• idefix@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve tried writing a resume last month and prepare a presentation (Writer and Impress). And I was very frustrated by crashes and lack of features. The interface is quite good, more intuitive than the MS equivalents.

  However, OnlyOffice was really nice to use.

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