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cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/12592
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No issues with Libre Office, but isn’t the point of this scene that homelander really is a downgrade?
I just wish it wasnt so ugly.
I prefer LibreOffice’s ugliness to Microsoft’s strange menus. Anyway they’re also available in LibreOffice, in the view menu.
For the rest of the interface you could look into GTK themes, I think LO’s looks depend a lot of the theme you use. The interface is pretty customizable, I think.
libreoffice is great! onlyoffice is good too if you like more compatability with office and docx, but it’s more geared toward online services and subscriptions.
cryptpad.fr if you need a google docs alternative. DONATE BTW; they are not a megacorp.
Good marketing point: LibreOffice has NO ENSHITTIFICATION! Great!
So… we supposed to be rooting for Homelander now?
For real. I really hate how all the internet has just decided to meme with homelander like he is a good guy. Any meme I see with him I just assume some sort of malevolence behind it because he is so fucking evil.
It’s not like Solider Boy is great either lol.
No, certainly not. I’m just pointing out that with context this meme template means something very different to what it says on the surface.
Unless OP’s point is that LibreOffice is more functional but much, much worse for society while there are better options just off-screen, in which case fair enough and well played.
I wouldn’t over think it. It’s just about the line used. The same way people use the Spider-Man template where he sees clearly with his glasses even though in the scene he sees better without them.
I feel like a meme academic lmao. “Well, yes, but the colloquial usage of templates often aren’t a one-to-one with what’s being shown, in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man,”
I’d hoped my last line would convey I was being more light-hearted than pedantic.
I’d hoped my last paragraph would convey the same back.
No it’s just saying libre office kills babies
Is that how it loads so fast?
No, the babies are necessary to parse the .doc format.
Thankfully nobody uses that anymore, praise be
I have a coworker that regularly sends *.xls files. They always function fine, so I really have no reason to complain.
xls files are blocked in our company because they can contain potentially harmful macros
No, it’s bloated as shit so it uses techniques from 2000s java to keep a good portion of it in memory at all times from boot to shutdown.
Try loading a portable version of libre office (ie if you have admin rights issues). It’s a solid ten second cold load on a 2 year old system.
*eats
Libreoffice is amazing. I had dismissed it ages ago back when I had no reason to boycott the US, but now I tried it again after switching to Linux and it works amazingly good.
There’s no need for MS Office for personal use, though unfortunately for my large corporate employer it probably isn’t going to realistically be considered.
I’m never quite sure if a document will translate 100% to Word or Excel, but otherwise I’ve been very happy.
To ensure better compatibility, do a fresh save-as to another format if possible on MS side (docx-doc, doc-docx, -docm, whatever). It forces Office to rebuild the file, i believe, and usually it fixes some display mistakes coming from excessive formatting, trashes the leftovers of previous edits, etc, and the file itself becomes lighter. Some other tricks:
- Have strict formatting rules and only select amount of styles. If you see them mutating, choose to select everything with a style-bastard applied, and then reapply their parent to all affected paragraphs (after what it should disappear);
- Don’t use rare fonts as long as possible, and if you do, on different machines too, copy them from Windows fonts folder in advance;
- Overwhelmingly long and complex tables in Word usually break. The most dire offender is how you unite cells and move separate cells’ borders, because it breaks their structure. Google has workarounds iand limitations on that in their products. To ensure your table translates right, copy it into Excel and then back after setting all cells in Excel to text data, as it likes to reformat e.g. 18.03.2025 into date format and such.
Some of these problems occured to me between different installations of MS products themselves, and with LO I had it the other way: Excel had a bugged file that wasn’t adjustable in how to print it. One column wasn’t fitting on the page one, but once I move the guideline over that column, Excel cuts this table into 70+ pages, one cell on each. The only thing that helped is opening this exact file in LO Calc where this problem just can’t be reproduced. Since that I use Calc first, and then Google Sheets as I haven’t found a fitting online sharing solution for myself and get invited tonedit it by others, and Excel is not an option at all anymore.
Thank you for the tips; I’ll try them.
LO is good software.
It replaced MSOffice Word for me (and I had been using Word since the early 90s). It also has a few extensions one may want to consider adding. Stuff like extra dictionaries for example, or better (than the default provided) ePub/HTML export tools.
How does it stack to Open Office? Got that years ago & it’s been treating me well.
LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice and most developers went to work on LibreOffice instead. You should consider switching to LibreOffice.
OpenOffice is not recommended, I hope you mean OnlyOffice, they get confused sometimes.
Nope! I do believe it’s OpenOffice, an older version, idk I downloaded a popular FOSS version a few years back. Pretty insane that Microsoft actually thinks people should pay a subscription to rent this stuff, lol
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