• Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Libreoffice (and the hot garbage that is libreCalc) is not at all equivalent to the Microsoft alternatives.

    Maybe for the HS student who don’t know any better.

    But it’s a mess for business.

    My company did a major switch to Linux, then THOUSANDS of tickets complaining about broken spreadsheets and word docs forced a lot of employees to secretly use Google Docs/Google Sheets. We had a company mandate/all-hands-on-deck to find a alternative. And now we have a hodgepodge of other BS, with tribes wanting us to get a Microsoft Office subscriptions, others pushing for forking another open-source suite, web devs building our own spreadsheet program, and accountants still secretly using Google Suite.

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      10 months ago

      others pushing for forking another open-source suite

      why don’t they just contribute to LibreCalc and make it better?

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        10 months ago

        Typical “why don’t you fix it” Linux attitude.

        I contribute to open source, in places I’m experienced in.

        LibreOffice has it’s own culture and world. Stuff that isn’t for me.

        To say it’s a good replacement for office is a lie.