Microsoft Office was ok when I last used it 25 years ago. I think it came preinstalled. But LibreOffice is the real thing and that its going to become the standard is good news.
LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs
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#212I just use Office 2007 for my personal stuff. It still works, even on Windows 11! Other than slightly better non-contiguous region operations and QoL improvements to pivot tables in Excel, on 365 that I use at work, I don't really miss anything. It also lags a lot less.
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I've used KDENLive and it's about as comparable to Resolve or Lightworks as Windows Movie Maker is to Premiere.
I think you need to distinguish between classes of users, e.g. home consumers needing some basic editing features vs. a hollywood studio, and the spectrum in between. I use KDENLive a lot and I find it to be an excellent product. Not perfect, but well thought out and powerful. Documentation I give a C grade too. It's awesome that some exists, but it tends to be outdated and frequently omits details about the specific…
I dunno, all the home users I know use Resolve. It's pretty easy to learn Resolve, with their tutorials you can go from "never edited a video" to "able to edit a simple short film" in about a day.
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Do you have any good alternatives to Photoshop that are open source? And that are not GIMP. Nothing against GIMP, I just found it too hard to learn coming from photoshop. I'm looking for a simple editor that can do color adjustments, crop/resize images, and add text.
I use Photopea which tries to mimic Photoshop UI and runs entirely on your browser. In fact, you can even install it as a Web App to run it offline. Pretty intuitive UI. https://www.photopea.com/
Yeah, but Photopea has a monthly cost and this post is about avoiding that. I love pwa, but I need image editing maybe once a month, I'm not going to pay a subscription for that
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Resolve is cool for pro users for others who basically just want to do small edits with straightforward software chrck out kdenlive
Honestly, Resolve isn't that difficult, especially if you're OK with watching some tutorials to get used to it. It's certainly no more difficult than Premiere (for basic tasks, of course).
I teach those programs (after working with them for years as a freelance editor/colorist).
Resolve is worth learning, and not that hard, you're right. But Resolve is not a "pick it up and it pretty much explains itself" software either.
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#216To my surprise, what used to be called iWork has been my main "Office" replacement for years now. It's good enough, and it's free. I have switched over most of the non-technical people in my life to it, and they have no issues using it (except if they email a .pages document to a Windows user). I especially enjoy Numbers and the way you can arrange multiple tables on a page. It's a different paradigm coming from Goog…
> iWork... It's good enough
I would argue it is not just good enough but better than Office for normal consumers. For 99% of my usage and SMEs, Page is insanely better at layout. Numbers are much better for simple chat, formulas and comparison. Keynote.... well i haven't touched powerpoint for 20+ years so I dont know.
The only thing Office is better is when you need slightly complex formulas in Excel or some enterprise that has been using Excel for so long you need to use it to guarantee absolute 100% compatibility. For business Excel usage is still king. And will continue to be for at least another 10 - 15 years if not more.
Re: LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs
#217To my surprise, what used to be called iWork has been my main "Office" replacement for years now. It's good enough, and it's free. I have switched over most of the non-technical people in my life to it, and they have no issues using it (except if they email a .pages document to a Windows user). I especially enjoy Numbers and the way you can arrange multiple tables on a page. It's a different paradigm coming from Goog…
> iWork... It's good enough I would argue it is not just good enough but better than Office for normal consumers. For 99% of my usage and SMEs, Page is insanely better at layout. Numbers are much better for simple chat, formulas and comparison. Keynote.... well i haven't touched powerpoint for 20+ years so I dont know. The only thing Office is better is when you need slightly complex formulas in Excel or some enterpr…
Does it still has this fatal flaw of ignoring the format of the currently-opened file when you press ⌘S (which should be a common occurrence)? I work with OpenDocument formats and I hated iWork products for that behavior.
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They could put pressure on the US government to enact economic reforms and stability or they can accept that sales will be down during Great Depression 2.
So giant corporations should pressure democratically elected leaders to go against the policies that their people elected them for, to benefit foreign interests? And the person telling me this is somebody who has taken their username from an active terrorist organization who favors political violence to forward a socialist ideology. You might not be a member of such an organization, maybe just an admirer. I don't nee…
I don't remember Elon Musk (who is obviously a fascist if you do any basic research on his recent history and family history) being on any ballots. I don't remember Trump campaigning on mass layoffs. I don't remember Trump campaigning on firing veterans. I remember Trump mocking other candidates for being warmongers. The mass deportations appear to be targeting free speech and skin colors and Ukrainians more than actual illegal immigrants and criminal immigrants. There is also the issue of skipping due process for these mass layoffs. Trump did not campaign on bringingback monarchy. Trump did not campaign on dismantling social security. Trump denied any interest in Project 2025. Trump sold a rugpull shitcoin right before inauguration. All evidence available shows that Trump is for sale to the highest bidder and has contempt for the constitution.
So no, these are not the policies that people voted for. These are policies that oligarchs cooked up.
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#219I don't think I could ever go back to storing my docs locally and not being able to access them from all my devices at all times anywhere in the world, easily.
You can mount your cloud drive, and open those files with LibreOffice or OnlyOffice, I certainly do so with Google Drive
It's not the same. I keep the document open on multiple machines (home and work for example) and they update. Then I pull out my phone and add a note to the same document all while it's still open on other machines.
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#220If 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…
You actually can still buy Office. It's quite expensive though. I suppose it always was. https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkID=2113574&CLCID=0x10...
> I suppose it always was.
I have a very vague memory that is was $200 in the 2000s, so if accurate the price has gone down.