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Ginormous defence spending is how the US do a "social state". That's pretty obvious once you see how defence money is peppered all across the country.
It's a republican jobs program.
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I use LibreOffice because it runs on my machine - MS Office doesn't. If MS made a Linux version I'd probably get that. LibreOffice is at its best if you make the docs and edit them just in LibreOffice. It's great at making structured docs. Calc is pretty good too. The PowerPoint equivalent is the weakest of the bunch, crashing frequently. However in the biz world you end up sharing docs and sheets with MS office user…
> If MS made a Linux version I'd probably get that. What about the web based Office 365? It should run fine on Linux, and clearly paid closed-source software isn't an issue for you if you would be willing to pay for traditional Microsoft Office. > However in the biz world you end up sharing docs and sheets with MS office users and that is where things start to go sideways. Office 365 should work swimmingly for this u…
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I recommend checking out ONLYOFFICE. They have a personal tier with a small online storage for free. And everything is AGPLv3. https://personal.onlyoffice.com/
OnlyOffice are not a community-oriented project, with their aggressive usage of AGPL+CLA, previous policy of withholding parts of code and throwing the rest over the wall once in a while, and their compatibility is far from what they claim: LibreOffice is far better compatible with MSO. Also, feature-wise it's crippled in comparison not only with LibreOffice proper, but even with LibreOffice Online.
Why do you say that? I trialed both of them with an array of complex Word documents and OnlyOffice far outperformed.
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I use LibreOffice because it runs on my machine - MS Office doesn't. If MS made a Linux version I'd probably get that. LibreOffice is at its best if you make the docs and edit them just in LibreOffice. It's great at making structured docs. Calc is pretty good too. The PowerPoint equivalent is the weakest of the bunch, crashing frequently. However in the biz world you end up sharing docs and sheets with MS office user…
> If MS made a Linux version I'd probably get that. What about the web based Office 365? It should run fine on Linux, and clearly paid closed-source software isn't an issue for you if you would be willing to pay for traditional Microsoft Office. > However in the biz world you end up sharing docs and sheets with MS office users and that is where things start to go sideways. Office 365 should work swimmingly for this u…
Subscription plans are stupid.
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The ribbon interface was adopted in 2007. That's 13 years ago. What is the jank? It's a tabbed interface of buttons instead of menus and sub menus I've been using Office since the early 90's and the ribbon interface for the last 13 years. I still can't find stuff easily in the ribbon interface. It's like there's some cognitive barrier to me retaining the layout of anything beyond the Home ribbon (or tab?). Any time I…
The key question is: would somebody who learned to use office after 2007 with the ribbon interface appreciate moving back to the pre-2007 interface? My guess is that more people learned to use office after 2007 than before, so the majority of people have no problems using the ribbon. I still yearn for ms-word on dos, and oracle forms on terminal interfaces, once you learned the keyboard shortcuts, nothing was faster.…
Democrats in the US House of Representatives just approved a $741 billion defense spending package. It will almost certainly clear the senate and be signed by the president. Imagine taking enough of that money to support these 40 LibreOffice developers and maybe say 20 more. There would be no need for these acrobatics around source availability. I understand why the companies need to do this. But there is an existing…
>Imagine taking enough of that money to support these 40 LibreOffice developers and maybe say 20 more. There are infinite ways to spend every dollar, why is LibreOffice funding worthy? In other words, why is LibreOffice's popularity so low that it cannot find a way to fund its operations? Which then raises the question - why do you want to fund an unpopular project?
MS Office is better than it's ever been, with a variety of licensing options that are affordable. And if you're a student you can get it for peanuts or free. Being able to use the same tools on desktop, web and mobile with everything accessible in OneDrive is a no brainer and outstanding value for the high end price of $99/yr for a family plan. If you're on a less expensive individual plan, a student plan or a discounted plan through your employer's HUP benefits, it's really kind of an easy decision.
It's weird to me that people complain over "old and ugly" interfaces. Consistency is worth so much more than fad-chasing. Learning something is more worthwhile if you are able to trust that it won't change underneath you. Take MS Office for example, I was made to learn how to use it in elementary school, we had an exam where we got a printed out page and had to reproduce it in an hour. This was supposed to be fundame…
MSFT had reason to believe that the Ribbon was more accessible and discoverable to users than the old menu structure. I was dubious at the time, but since the shift I have come to believe that they are correct. I think the Ribbon is better for the vast majority of users. Interfaces shouldn't be changed for no good reason -- and MSFT is certainly guilty of chasing fads or tweaks without a clear benefit, too, in other…
Microsoft also removed the start menu on Windows once and everybody hated it. Sometimes, MSFT is wrong.
Though recent versions are better, it still feels slow compared to Office.
Where’s the vision?!
Is this not a cut-and-dry case of trademark violation?