Submitted 4 months ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
FOSS software will win eventually. It may take time, but if good FOSS software is being built by enthusiasts then a time will come where proprietary software fucks up. And when it does, FOSS is ready to take it’s place. And as soon as FOSS has become a standard in some field, why would there ever be a need to go back to proprietary?
Maybe. I thought and fought for this from the 1990s on my own small ways with no luck and only to see the rise and rise of walled garden, proprietary, bullshit software.
The issue is end users have the prescience of a gold fish, i have zero solutions to that.
if good FOSS software is being built by enthusiasts
LibreOffice is forked long ago from the extremely corporate OpenOffice effort, which in turn originated from the non-open-source Star Office. Not all FOSS comes from enthusiasts.
LibreOffice is forked long ago from the extremely corporate OpenOffice effort, which in turn originated from the non-open-source Star Office. Not all FOSS comes from enthusiasts.
That’s a fair point. I would also be very much in favor of governments subsidizing certain FOSS projects. There’s a lot of work to be done, and people certainly deserve to be paid for it too.
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I love Libre so much
I have to say I’m one of them. Cancelled my office subscription and an trying to avoid making the same mistake again. It was convenient though.
See it wasn’t that hard:
Hahahahaha nice
I really like LibreOffice but I still need Excel. It’s a good 20 years ahead of the OSS software. It works find if your doing light work though
Makes me wonder, what exactly are you missing on LibreOffice Sheet?
Easiest thing I can think of off the top of my head is dealing with pivot tables. UI is terrible in OpenOffice also integrations with PowerBI does not exist along with XLookup not existing last I checked
For me biggest missing I’ve found is web/external queries. Excel has a system to log in to an API, retrieve that data and format it before it lands on your sheet.
Libre functionality here is lacking/non existent.
My workaround was to write a python query, add it as a cron job, write that data to a csv then call that csv from my sheet with a timed refresh. Not something the average user can or wants to do.
Everything else I’ve found achievable.
That’s the problem: if you want greater adoption, you must cover the needs of accountants, because Excel knows perfectly well that they are the fixed source of income for companies.
nice hahaha
I used OnlyOffice thinking ‘Hey, this is a really similar alternative to MSO!’ Then bugs with slide previews and their ordering happened in the middle of presentations and even worse, memory leaks ground my laptop to a halt.
Libre office still hasn’t crashed and the slide previews are accurate. The interface has always been a bit…unrefined even with the new tabbed layout but I can live with that.
OpenOffice 3 had the best office suite UI I can imagine.
Dunno where all this “MS is good” comes from.
Don’t like today’s LO UI.
I didn’t even know this existed until a few days ago. Downloaded an AppImage to try it out and was able to make a decent pdf with minimal hassle.
I was really worried I’d need to use Foxit Phantom Pdf just to edit a pdf a couple of weeks ago, but libre office draw was very little hassle, with the exception of a bit of shifting of text.
I ditched MS office for Libre long time ago, all I need it for is to open and view the occasional document anyways. For creating or editing documents I like Googles office suite better though
Obligatory comment that endorses pirating software. We need to make sure this stereotype about Lemmy remains accurate.
I like LibreOffice, but I prefer Onlyoffice.
Haven’t used ms products in a decade
It’s like this meme:
Alternative to Photoshop: Cracked Photoshop Alternative to Office: cracked office
XD
And IIIIII helped!
Is it the best free option? It works fairly well although I can still kill it sometimes.
I know there’s a few other alternatives like OnlyOffice, wps office etc but these might be freemium.
Is it finally the year of foss? I love LibreOffice and started using it years back for personal use not wanting to bother with buying another Microsoft Office version once the one I had stopped getting security updates.
I’ve been using LibreOffice for years and it is fantastic – although I have always had problems importing PowerPoints. Xcel and Word documents are fine, but PowerPoint is always a mess.
PowerPoints suffer from lack of smart objects, and in the case of using Linux, font conversion. But it’s just that we’ve got to persevere with it. 😅
theregister.com/…/libreoffice_wasm_zetaoffice/
Native Realtime collaboration on documents and spreadsheets is the last feature holding us back from switching in business environments.
Collabora office
Microsoft is going to make the S, E, A, R, and . characters subscription only for $1.99 / month.
So we’ll have to go to libre office to spell arse?
Correct, you can call Microsoft arse and any variant thereof for free on LibreOffice.
Pandas killed VBA for me that was about the only reason I had to use an ms office suite
I just don’t understand how they jumped from version 7 to 24 …
because seven ate nine through twenty-thres
x 3 + 3 obviously.
Not x 4 - 4
Does anyone know how to get endnote or a similar citation manager to work in Libre Office?
Oh, that’s fantastic! Thank you, I will give it a try!
If you ever figure it out I’d love to know, too. I relied entirely on Libre Office as an undergrad but missed this feature of MS Word. I currently use a combination of Scribbr and Purdue Owl but would prefer an offline and open source solution.
Zotero has plugins for LibreOffice and other word processors: https://www.zotero.org/support/word_processor_integration
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Does it have the same shorcuts as microsoft excel?
Not sure but it’s free to download and try out
Many of them work the same. Fill down etc. Not sure about more obscure ones.
Is this better than Apache open office?
Open Office is not maintained anymore
In my opinion, yes. I use it almost daily at work and I have it on my PC just in case.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Good. Finally. It’s about time.