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LibreOffice, OnlyOffice, both have been a great since I switched away from Office 365—feeling I get overcharged for a function I will not use—for use with Nextcloud. It is even better to get a $39 ('refurbed' license for Office 2024) if you have to use (MS)Office.
I am one of those annoying LaTeX people now, so my “word processor” ends up being tmux, NeoVim, and Nix, but I understand that that’s not for most people. LibreOffice is honestly fine nowadays. I feel like Excel is probably a bit better than Calc, but Calc is still capable enough for most tasks. The documents look decent enough, it’s easy to use, it’s reasonably fast, and you can’t really beat the price. I have to ad…
LibreOffice comes with six icon themes. Do you mean every single one of them is childish or only a particular one?
If I'm evaluating a potential application whose core functionality does not require external resources/servers (Dropbox for example) and they don't at a minimum offer some kind of perpetual fallback license (aka the Jetbrains annual subscription model), then I straight up bounce. Examples of good alternatives - Pixelmator > Photoshop - Davinci Resolve > Premiere - Reaper > Audition I have no interest in renting my to…
While those producing tools for living might not have an interest on keeping offering them free of charge. Eventually that guy/girl in Nebraska is going to look elsewhere.
It's probably also related to the geopolitical context. The US has threatened war at least against Canada, Europe, Panama and China, while clearly eyeing an alliance with Russia, which would in turn threaten many countries bordering Russia. That's a pretty large number of users who don't feel safe using US products anymore.
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And by threatening to invade Greenland (which is Danish territory). And by starting a trade war against EU. And by having the leaked messages of US vice president describing how much he despises Europe.
The US has a very odd way of strengthening an alliance by alienating its allies.
If I'm evaluating a potential application whose core functionality does not require external resources/servers (Dropbox for example) and they don't at a minimum offer some kind of perpetual fallback license (aka the Jetbrains annual subscription model), then I straight up bounce. Examples of good alternatives - Pixelmator > Photoshop - Davinci Resolve > Premiere - Reaper > Audition I have no interest in renting my to…
> I have no interest in renting my tools. While I appreciate the sentiment, the world where you could use the same software for many years without updates is gone. These days developers have to invest significant time and effort into making sure the software just runs on the constantly updated operating systems and platforms — which costs money on an ongoing basis. Expecting your software to be updated regularly with…
It's easy to keep your machines secured even if they are using a decades old OS. Businesses are still depending on a lot of old software and hardware, because it gets the job done with great efficiency.
It's probably also related to the geopolitical context. The US has threatened war at least against Canada, Europe, Panama and China, while clearly eyeing an alliance with Russia, which would in turn threaten many countries bordering Russia. That's a pretty large number of users who don't feel safe using US products anymore.
Yet are the donations also on the rise? I bet they aren't.
Fortunately they are, but TDF's budget is still rather small when considering the scale of the project. TDF is looking to expand its dev team. There's a lot of activity going on with volunteers and interns, but we need more senior devs to tackle the trickier renovations.
LibreOffice, OnlyOffice, both have been a great since I switched away from Office 365—feeling I get overcharged for a function I will not use—for use with Nextcloud. It is even better to get a $39 ('refurbed' license for Office 2024) if you have to use (MS)Office.
Onlyoffice is awesome, if you’re buying recycled keys you may as well just MAS it since they’re both technically against TOS.
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LibreOffice comes with six icon themes. Do you mean every single one of them is childish or only a particular one?
I guess the default one. I haven’t tried the other ones.