Yeah, I decided back then I would probably not renew my subscription this summer. And I didn’t!
Funny thing, I thought I was more productive in MS Office because the user interface is more polished. But even when LibreOffice is at times janky, I’m actually far more productive in it, it turns out. Sure, my attention is always drawn on the tiny little things that trip me up, but if I look at the sheer amount of text and spreadsheets I can churn out, I’m doing much better on LO.
what makes you faster in LO?
Cancelled a little while ago and now moved to Euro-Office. Lame title, works really well.
And before people get at me: Especially Euro-office’s sheets are so much closer to a 1:1 replacement for Excel.
No better time to switch to LibreOffice, if you can!
but to get everything ms 365 offers, you want to check out nextcloud.
Yup. I pay about $6/month for Hetzner with my NextCloud. Love it.
I’m use LiberOffice! It’s great! :D
It now offers “ribbons” in the UI, if you so choose, too.
Thing is, I am trying to convince a small business here to move to that, but when opening files in excel or word sometimes its not as intended some columns are rearranged some graphics move to the left or right unintentionally. This is the big issue for businesses I see.
MS office can save in ODF format. It’s fine
the problem for businesses is that they cant ask people to save in ODF format, its whatever they send them to work with in a dynamic environment.
They literally can. They choose not to.
No you can’t. You can’t go around asking businesses that may or may not know what that is or how to do it in the middle of fast pace negotiations or business to save a file in a different format because you are a special snowflake. It should be done to be able to test the other format natively and vise versa or to make it the main format. It won’t work otherwise in such places. That is why there are few and far between businesses switching.
Mind you this is coming from a person that switched 2 years or so ago and BOT going back no matter what.
Are you saying a business has never said “this needs to be a PDF” before?
Fuck off with that noise. If they don’t understand how to use “save as” they don’t deserve the contract.
Are you saying a business has never said “this needs to be a PDF” before?
What are you talking about mate ? We are talking about open office and microsoft office, what PDF ?! What does PDF have to do with excels, columns and rows, misalignment and word objects moving on a word document.
Fuck off with that noise. If they don’t understand how to use “save as” they don’t deserve the contract.
you have obviously never dealt with businesses first hand. I work in big tech, and you cant do that here eater. It has to be done naturally, you cant do that in a fast pace business work flow, you will simply loose clients and money because you are too slow, asking people to change their habits, and waiting for someone to convert something that they forgot to convert it because you feel like a special snowflake and you want your pancakes done in a special way.
I will continue to globally not use Office 365 again for another year. Easy.
I now have to think about canceling my non existent subscription. What a headache.
Imagine paying Microsoft to access your own files lol
A good reminder to make sure you cancelled that subscription
