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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Is there a LibreOffice alternative?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

A good one.

Nobody needs to learn hieroglyphics to save a file.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Yeah, just press this button with a picture of a floppy disk on it.

"What's a floppy disk?"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Could use Wordpad (outdated word that’s free)

[–] emergencyfood 0 points 10 months ago

Linuxes come with text editors (almost always vim, and usually a GUI one like Gedit). But they aren't part of LibreOffice, just as Notepad isn't part of MS Office.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

WPS Office, is from a chinese company but it works pretty good with Microsoft Office files

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

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