LibreOffice 26.8 became the app’s most popular update, with over 1 million downloads, after the foundation behind it declared that LibreOffice doesn’t come with generative AI features due to the…
I was prompted by this announcement to download it. An office suite came installed by default with this machine, but I want to support their numbers and start promoting it to others.
I’m an accountant. I use Libreoffice to write complex written documents and manage reasonably large data sets for 40 hours a week for the last decade, and openoffice before that. I encourage my small team to do the same and for the most part, they do. We all have both libreoffice and microsoft suites on our desktops.
It’s fine. I feel like it’s the humble workhorse that has served me very well for many years with no fuss.
I’m sure someone will be along in a moment to tell us all about how any serious professional uses excel. There always is in these threads.
For my own part I feel like LibreOffice is one of the great success stories of open source.
I’m a simple support who occasionally work with personal data stored in CSV and JSON. Libreoffice sucks. For example: deduplication hiden behind “create autofilters > press on any filter > filter by condition > standard filter > remove selected field > press options > no duplications”. Cool, eh? And for some reason it doesn’t work if at least one field selected, which is completely unintuitive. There other quirks too, like completely hidden in settings function to display more than 1 million rows, wich is disabled by default and there no notification that your document exceed this. I already forgot other issues that I faced with it, but yeah, not a fan of it. It’s good untill you start actually use it.
That being said, it’s free, open source and works most of the time, especially if you just need to view some data, from this side of things it have almost zero competition.
I was prompted by this announcement to download it. An office suite came installed by default with this machine, but I want to support their numbers and start promoting it to others.
I’ve used their stuff for years, definitely solid
I’m an accountant. I use Libreoffice to write complex written documents and manage reasonably large data sets for 40 hours a week for the last decade, and openoffice before that. I encourage my small team to do the same and for the most part, they do. We all have both libreoffice and microsoft suites on our desktops.
It’s fine. I feel like it’s the humble workhorse that has served me very well for many years with no fuss.
I’m sure someone will be along in a moment to tell us all about how any serious professional uses excel. There always is in these threads.
For my own part I feel like LibreOffice is one of the great success stories of open source.
Why would they call it Excel if it didn’t EXCEL over the rest?? Checkmate DORK
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I’m a simple support who occasionally work with personal data stored in CSV and JSON. Libreoffice sucks. For example: deduplication hiden behind “create autofilters > press on any filter > filter by condition > standard filter > remove selected field > press options > no duplications”. Cool, eh? And for some reason it doesn’t work if at least one field selected, which is completely unintuitive. There other quirks too, like completely hidden in settings function to display more than 1 million rows, wich is disabled by default and there no notification that your document exceed this. I already forgot other issues that I faced with it, but yeah, not a fan of it. It’s good untill you start actually use it.
That being said, it’s free, open source and works most of the time, especially if you just need to view some data, from this side of things it have almost zero competition.
LOL. I knew you’d be along.
Maybe sqlite?
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