✧✦Catherine✦✧okay so what's going on with office software
the OnlyOffice mess is garden variety xenophobia that people who know better on here are amplifying, that's easy
what the fuck is going on with LibreOffice and Collabora
John Regehr@whitequark has LibreOffice gotten any better recently? god it was awful the last time I tried to use it, and I'll never forget the time one of my students who (with good intentions) moved some of our documents over to it and they were so irrevocably fucked afterwards that we just discarded all of the work he had done
@regehr you'd have to be more specific for me to give you an answer, like what was awful?
@whitequark it just didn't really seem to work, had trouble with basic document formatting and saving and loading and stuff. was a few years ago
@regehr always worked for me, even back when i was in high school. the interface is a little revolting but i feel the same about msoffice. hasn't had much issues making .docx's for my company a month ago for example
@whitequark might have been specific to what we were doing, I don't know. it's nice to have an alternative to the MS stuff, but I don't really use that either, unless forced, for work reasons
Dan Lyke@regehr @whitequark I'm on Mac most recently, but lockups/force-quit are fairly common. I use it only when absolutely necessary, and remember to save often.