Maybe this will also get more people to use Linux as they get used to the free office. As the market share of Linux grows so to will the developers working on Linux software.
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Ngl, i still use a coporate copy of office 2007.
That’s the one I’ve used the most from my time in school and honestly, I’m not sure what else you’d want from a document editor
How does one Excel without FILTER
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Haha to be fair I never actually used Excel much
In my opinion, it's most important for kids to learn to use these tools above all. Schools need to take the charge on using products like these instead of corporate offerings. Once that takes place, I think (hope) the floodgates will open and that we'll finally start breaking free of the shackles of these kinds of corporate software.
It's a silly, self-reinforcing cycle, isn't it? Admins see MS Office in the workplace and think it's important for kids to learn it.
You're right! But I see this as a perversion of education. Education should not be a job training programme. It should teach you how to think and learn. It should be a place where you "learn how to learn" to put it more accurately.
So if you learn how to use LibreOffice in schools, you should be able to adapt when you arrive in the workplace and use MS Office instead - especially if you are still young.
And in my opinion, having experience with two office suites makes you more productive in the end anyway. I think it helps teach you how to translate capabilities from one product to another and makes you more knowledgeable about how each of them works. At least that's what happens to me in my experience when I learn two analogous pieces of software.
As a long time Google Docs user, I downloaded Libreoffice (again after many years) 6 months ago—and it's been great! Come on in, the waters fine!
The fact that I can scroll horizontally with shift+scroll wheel is reason enough to stay with LibreOffice. Why did MS get rid of that? Almost every other Windows app does this except their shitty Office products.
LibreOffice is great. And it's free.
Also piracy is a great alternative to paying subscription fees, and it's not terribly difficult to do.
It's not even really worth it to pirate. Just stop using it if you don't absolutely need it.
Shoutout to @albert180@discuss.tchncs.de who gave the recommendation to enable tabbed ribbon style, making the UI more familiar for people coming from MS Office products.
This whole situation has made me realize how much I used American goods and services as a Canadian. I used to see them as near equal when buying products, but now that I know they can be used to attack me I am going with non-US for everything and diversifying my tech. Lots of other great choices out there. I use obsidian for note taking and was delighted to find out they are Canadian owned.
Really eye opening. I moved my cloud from office365 to sync.com, my email from Gmail to tuta mail, my domain registration from namecheap to whc.ca. IPTV instead of subscriptions for TV, cancelled adobe and use gimp. I was able to get rid of all my US-subscription services and apps that tracked me. European or Canadian companies are just as good, I just haven't given them an opportunity.
I still have to use Facebook for some things unfortunately , but there is no way around that as the community is there.
Boy Star Division has certainly come a long way since 1985.
Ah edit: Star Office of course. I accidentally shared the name of the StartWriter company. I remember StarOffice 3.0 on Solaris.