✧✦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
Graham Sutherland / Polynomial@regehr @whitequark I similarly found Write to fall short on basic "being a word processor" tasks like reliably formatting & loading/saving when I last used it 4 or 5 years back. Calc seemed less janky at the time.
@gsuberland @regehr yeah worth mentioning I've almost exclusively used Calc, that could be why
@whitequark @gsuberland I've not used that one at all, but nice to know!
cthos 🐱@regehr @whitequark @gsuberland I use Write regularly but I don't really do anything wild with layout, if I want to do anything more complex than including some images I'll switch over to a desktop publishing tool.
So it works great for me 😅
Pxl Phile@regehr @whitequark @gsuberland I use calc and write somewhere regularly. It's okay is, office 2000-like. But under Ubuntu with XFCE it has a terrible bug under exactly that combination with little chance of fixing. But it works well enough to be the only alternative for me rn