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.
Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I don’t know what LibreOffice was like when y’all formed your opinions on it 20 years ago, but right now it’s pretty much perfect
dufkm@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
It’s true, Excel specifically is head and shoulders above anything excel-like.
dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
I prefer Google Sheets to Excel, but I still use LibreOffice Calc for everything anyway
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
LO beats it in python support
iarigby@lemmy.world 1 day 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.
dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
it doesn’t feel that different than Word and Excel, tbh - I don’t know what you’re talking about
iarigby@lemmy.world 1 day 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
dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day 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!
RandomVideos@programming.dev 1 day ago
I woudnt call a software where its hard to rotate an image “perfect”
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
It’s not. Installed and tried last month. A bug that’s alder that many people here with Fullscreen is still present.
drspod@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Can you link the bug report please?
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Here’s a forum post talking about it 10 years ago.
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.
idefix@sh.itjust.works 1 day 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.
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 1 day 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.
sudoer777@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
For documents I started learning Typst and LaTeX a while ago and now I greatly prefer either of them over LibreOffice
Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
LOL
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 1 day ago
Don’t laugh too loud, you’ll make LibreOffice Base crash somehow.
Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Wouldn’t you like that, professional Word monkey?