oceanWhat do you use to replace google docs/sheets?
Depends on what you’re doing and why.
If I’m doing something for work, I’m not wasting my time using anything other than Excel. I have shit to do.
For home stuff? Sure. I’ll mess around with anything non-proprietary.
Good point, libreoffice sucks for word
I absolutely love Libre/FOSS, but I don’t always have time to fuck around learning new ways to skin a cat. I’ll almost always recommend proprietary solutions if that’s what you’re used to. It just makes sense. 🤷♂️
Always use the tool that’s best for the job, and sometimes that’s hot steaming piles of closed source shit.
arabiccola@Xanza @ocean disagree, everything takes effort to learn, and by learning a proprietary system you limit your future self. Instagram is fun until it starts taking your freedoms away. The moment you download everything and have it on your own immich server you discover how fragile this illusion of convenience is. The same applies to all technologies. It is really much better if you use Postgres for your embeddings versus smthing like Pinecone. All learning's hard, choose your hard, learn wise
@Xanza More than ever, we have to learn at an unprecedented rate, the same reasons why you refuse to learn a better tool are likely screwing you in many other areas. Stop, think, and learn skills that can save you in more situations, which can adapt to your needs through an open ecosystem. Ethics aside, it is most often the right thing to do from a practical and a strategic standpoint. It may have been somewhat true in the early 2000's. Today, it is 110% true. Jesus, just go and check selfh.st
ColeI’m legitimately asking because I’m curious, not trying to start a flame war here…
What features are you missing in LibreOffice Calc that you use in Excel? I personally use Calc at home, but can’t get away with it a work because of imaginary numbers. (Although most things I’ve just moved to using Python + Pandas because both programs can’t handle large datasets very well)
Power query/pivot, 365 integration, stat/finance functions, forecasting models, VBA, etc.
Mainly because I use Excel for work. I don’t want to hack together a solution in the middle of my workflow with Python and other FOSS tools. I need it to just work. And Excel just works.