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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I'd say it depends on what you do and how much collaboration with other people is involved. I have always used standalone clients, and I'm not a fan anything web browser based (or cloud in general). I started using LibreCalc instead of Excel for my job a few months ago. Now that I got used to it, I love it. It loads faster, has regex out of the box. Excel has already become quite enshittified, in my opinion.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

What you both said are true. It's convenient to load a site and perform tasks to a degree what native clients can, and it's also weird how since more than a decade ago we can't agree on anything and now we are trying to do everything in a web client.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Interesting insight, thanks.