Alaknar

@Alaknar@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs | The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded by nearly 1 million users a week⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of stuff now happens automagically

  Nothing happens automagically. You need to specifically ask Copilot to do something.

  makes it harder to see the reasons and structures and language of how it is meant to work

  This I also don’t fully agree with. Like I mentioned, Copilot won’t automatically place formulas everywhere - it just designs them but you need to copy-paste them into the appropriate spots.

  So, yeah, you’re not writing the formulas, but it’s not like the whole thing just magically appears.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs | The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded by nearly 1 million users a week⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ll become better at spreadsheets

  Great! Thing is: a day only has 24 hours and right now I need to get better at managing IT infrastructure and business processes, not spreadshets.

  If you have the time to research Excel - go for it! Absolutely nobody is forcing you to use Copilot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs | The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded by nearly 1 million users a week⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Some useless nonsense, like generative AI.

  This is a very ignorant and prejudiced take.

  AI in Excel is an amazing feature that will help TONNES of people do what they never could It can design tables and write (but not insert) advanced formulas for the user.

  Sure, you could say “just be an Excel expert”, but - for example - my daily work is nowhere near Excel. Learning its advanced features would be a 100% waste of time, just to be able to prep a fancy chart every couple of years. So, instead, I can just ask Copilot to do that fancy thing for me, instead of wasting hours online, trying to figure out XLOOKUP, or some such.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs | The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded by nearly 1 million users a week⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I can just imaging an AI tool going in the messing one little thing up, and it being near impossible to find the error.

  It doesn’t put formulas into the cells. It will write the formula for you, but you have to put it in yourself.

  Also, there’s versioning in Office, so your spreadsheet blowing up for whatever reason isn’t a problem at all - just roll back to the previous version of the file.