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Today I did my first advanced spreadsheet on LibreOffice after switching to Linux, and it handled itself pretty well. I had to search for some features on the web at first, but after I got it down, I felt comfortable using it. Also, LibreOffice's default menu layout is not pretty, but I can find all of the functions with just a click, unlike MS Office's ribbon menu where I had to click around to find what I was looking for. Sorry for bad English.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Yea, but it'd be better of calc gridlines did have that unchangeable fade effect

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I bring this up often because its so amusing to me.

Last year I did a lot of interviews with developers of popular Steam Deck and Linux programs. All went really well, and were quite fun to do.

One 'dev' (I use that term so loosely because I found out GPT is heavily used for their work) freaked out though when they saw my document I sent initially was an .odt file.

Knowing I am a pen-tester, they freaked out and told the public at large I was trying to hack them with a weird file type.

.odt

It still makes me laugh. Anyway, I swear by LibreOffice, I use it daily and love it so much!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

if a specific format isn't requested or required, and the formatted text document is not expected to be edited by the recipient--only read, possibly by computer, or printed, i would default to using a pdf.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 minutes ago* (last edited 11 minutes ago)

Most of these were not on-the-spot interviews. They were very informal questions and answers.

So Writer felt appropriate to me - the questions were there, they can copy to paste elsewhere, or enter their own answers in the document.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

I do wish it had a self hosted docker though. I could see Proton mail and thunder mail adopting it that way, which would be neat.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

Yeah; it's pretty great. It lacks the excel functions, but if you know some python that is a total non-issue.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

You can visually theme it so it looks differently

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Yes. Its the obvious choice for desktop.

But if you want web, have you tried CryptoPad.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

Collabora used to offer Libre Office online, now it’s their Libre Office fork

Rollapp lets you use LibreOffice online but I don’t think there is collaboration

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago

Indeed, LibreOffice Calc is a near-daily fixture in my operational workflow. The insistence on proprietary, data-harvesting alternatives like Google Docs is… unnecessary. For Debian-based systems, the installation process is straightforward: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa & sudo apt install libreoffice, referencing the official documentation at https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Install/Linux

[–] [email protected] 24 points 15 hours ago

offtopic but your english is great :)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

Linux has a bit of a design lacking but the functionality is there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Define lack of design. You mean theming? because Linux has way more customizable theming options than the proprietary alternatives, to fit all kinds of subjective tastes.

You mean usability? it's the one system that you can rice up to do absolutely whatever you want to do to fit your workflow, you can configure any key to automate literally anything a desktop can do.

The catch is that you actually do have to get your hands dirty if you want to mold the system to your liking.. as opposed to being your own tastes the ones molding to adapt to whichever the designer of the OS decided should be the new tacky fashion or workflow.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 hours ago

I think he mispelled Windows.

Windows 11 is literally a part copy of KDE. Even the webpage got copied till they removed the evidence. It is KDE from Linux that got copied because the Windows User Interface was shit af.

But they still lack a lot for my taste. KDE seems to be the winner for me

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago

Depends on the Desktop/Theme your using really.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

A lot of what Linux lacks is UI design, and at least 50+% of that is just because of what we got used to using other products.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Absolutely true. We mimicked bad design out there for compatibility, but then it became comfy and now cannot be changed.

Having said that, the ribbon must die. Let's not hold MSOffice (post-97) up as the ideal for anything at all, okay?

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