• ulterno@programming.dev
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      20 days ago

      No, LibreOffice is way better nowadays.

      And that is mainly thanks to MS Office having gotten way worse than before.

      There is a long standing problem where LibreOffice becomes very slow when adding images. That hasn’t been fixed, last I checked.
      But thanks to MS Office now being slow all the time and also taking up way too much RAM, meaning that opening 4-5 Word+Excel documents on 8GB RAM means you are constantly using the page file (my exp. with Office 2015 back then), LibreOffice’s problem is not a big deal any more.

      Your experience might not match what I am saying, because I am comparing MS Office on Windows vs LibreOffice on Linux.

  • MeThisGuy@feddit.nl
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    20 days ago

    isn’t openoffice the better one or is the jury still out on that one?

    i dunno, I just wordpad everything

    • Rachel@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      20 days ago

      LibreOffice is based on OpenOffice but OpenOffice is basically abandoned with every few updates or improvements over a good handful of years now. LibreOffice is generally seen as the successor and I wouldn’t be surprised is OpenOffice just gets archived.

  • besselj@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    20 days ago

    All the cool kids are using military-grade, open-source productivity tools now

    • themurphy@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      20 days ago

      Fun fact about military-grade.

      It means jack shit. It’s a marketing buzz word, and should be illegal to use in commercial sense.

      • SW42@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        20 days ago

        It generally means the cheapest option with the simplest possible operation that does the job well enough.