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LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs

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Re: LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs

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Post by asqueella »

yummypaint wrote: post #108
baq wrote: post #99

I need a Calc which doesn't suck. I don't necessarily need Excel, but the spreadsheet shouldn't be unusably slow at 100x100 cells with simple calculations and a literal couple of V/XLOOKUPs.

Gnumeric may be the answer for you. It was the answer for me. It's amazing how quickly both excel and libre office documents shit the bed and produce outright wrong behavior once they hit a few MB of data and/or a few dozen plots. Not to mention the fiasco of all the genetic information corrupted by excel's boneheaded auto complete (which they STILL haven't fixed afaik). I have gnumeric documents with hundreds of plo…

Given their download page[1] doesn't have any binaries, can you clarify if they still don't have Pivot tables, as Wikipedia claims?

[1] http://www.gnumeric.org/download.html

Re: LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs

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Post by mixmastamyk »

donatj wrote: post #37

I've commented as much before but what do people even use office for these days? Like I hear individuals complain about the prices and I'm just like I have not needed a real office suite in years. Google Docs has been enough to get by with for free for well over a decade. Are you... creating and printing documents? Why? I haven't had a real need for a word processor since email was invented.

I use LO Writer for my resume, and Calc for my taxes.

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Post by joseda-hg »

fumufumufumu wrote: post #219
joseda-hg wrote: post #203

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

IIRC OnlyOffice can do that Google Docs style collaboration, but it does take extra effort to setup

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Post by Yoric »

surgical_fire wrote: post #134
milesrout wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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> US is trying to strengthen NATO by pushing the other members to spend more on defence 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.

Don't forget that the US is also clearly supporting parties that are both against democracy and against the EU.

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Post by nilram »

nilram wrote: post #10

I started using OpenOffice a couple decades ago when I got tired of pirating the market leader. Not wanting to start any religious wars, but I still haven't made the leap to Libre.

Thanks for the replies re OO's security issues, they're lighting a fire under me to make the move.

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Post by fodkodrasz »

tracker1 wrote: post #198
UncleSlacky wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pinta (essentially a reimplementation of Paint.NET) exists for MacOS as well as Linux and Windows: https://www.pinta-project.com/releases/

I want to like Pinta, but some of the load/save behaviors are just weird... not sure if I last tried the Flatpak version or not, but I've tried it on both Mac and Linux a few times... It's my go to for quick edits, but far from a fav.

I tried Pinta, and honestly it has so many subtle differences from PDN, it was really uncomfortable and unproductive for me. I could not get to like it, but will give it some more time.

Also the icons are terrible (at least on the mac), I find it really hard to identify a tool, these monochrome icons set me off and slowed me down since Visual Studio 2012. This fad is a really good example for design trends ruining productivity.

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Post by seec »

ohgr wrote: post #91
lauritz wrote: post #86

To 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…

I tried using Numbers across my Mac and iPad. It has some show stopping sync bugs there which result in it completely destroying documents. Then when you try and recover previous versions you get a lesson in Apple's commitment to things other than the facade on the front of their stuff: not a lot. The document versions thing sometimes doesn't even work and if it does it's so slow it's unusable. Probably backed with s…

Another common problem with Numbers is the low performance as row count grow and calculations complexity rise.

It can make some very pretty sheets but don't count on it if you have needs for something like pivot tables (which it doesn't have natively).

I think Apple is fucking everyone with those apps. They are not good enough for serious work but decent enough that people will use them; all to get a built-in lock in because of course it only runs on Macs...

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