Yeah same. I respect the huge amount of work it takes to make a suite like that, but… I’m lucky I’ve worked with Blender a lot to give me a good impression of open source software. If Libre was my first thing I experimented with in the open source world (and I think for many, many people it probably is), I would probably think “wow open source software is a joke, I guess you get what you pay for after all”. It really makes a horrible impression. I wonder why LibreOffice has so many usability pains vs Blender, despite the fact that both applications have very high demand. Maybe it’s just that LibreOffice seems really dull to contribute to?
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zapzap@lemmings.world 4 days ago
Man… every time I use LibreOffice I curse. I’m dyed in the wool pro open source, but LibreOffice has just never cut it for me. I suppose if I had a job to do and that’s what I was given it would work.
mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 4 days ago
What do you think about Callabora?
zapzap@lemmings.world 4 days ago
Never heard of it. Only Office was decent though, the couple of times I used it.
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Check it out and let me know what you think
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Same. I have to tinker with it a lot to make it less frustrating to use. I like how customisable it is but man I don’t really want to customise everything anymore.
I want a UX that is great out of the box in terms of theming, functionality, and ease of use. I want sane defaults.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
I luckily only really use Calc. Ive had no problems with that, but my use cases are fairly primitive probably. What kind of issues did you have while using it?
TheFrogThatFlies@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I would guess that they, as everyone else, have worked with MS Office all their lives and can do whatever they need without thinking much in there. But libreoffice has some small differences that will break their workflow and will spend time learning how to workaround those instead of doing what they need. For example, my grip is that in MS I can redo the last operation with ctrl+y, where in libre it’s ctrl+shift+y. They could very likely allow the former to behave like the latter when redo buffet is empty, but they don’t.
baru@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Calc has loads of small papercuts (tiny usability issues) which added together make it quite horrible to use. It’s not polished.
InFerNo@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
What I hate about Calc is how it scrolls horizontally, it can’t show half a column, it’s the whole column or it doesn’t scroll, which is pretty fucking annoying when you have large columns.
What I love about Calc is how it handles data imports. So much better than Excel, which usually turns it into garbage or adds things that aren’t there.
ThoGot@feddit.org 3 days ago
There’s also Impress, which feels like PowerPoint from 2010 or even earlier