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Excel is the most important tool I need for my work. :/
IIRC there is browser support for excel
Yes, but it's considerably slower and extremely frustrating to use for a power user.
Not FOSS but maybe this might work for you: https://www.freeoffice.com/en/
Interesting! Thanks.
No problem! FOSS alternatives are really good as an office suite on their own but when it comes to Excel, things might go tricky. I hope they're as compatible as they claim.
I'm seriously considering trying to become a contributor.
Well, they appreciate any kind of contributions. Thanks for considering this.
It's pretty bad at anything with large amounts of both data and formulas.
As an example, if you try to make a spreadsheet for managing resources of any basic Colony Sim game (something with a list of items and recipes to turn them into other items and keep track of quantities), then you're already beyond the computing capacity of the browser based excel.
To be fair, if you're using large amounts of data and formulas as a power user, you should probably be instead writing some python or something to handle CSVs.
As for your particular example, LibreCalc would work just fine.
Yeah but it sucks and has nowhere near the same level of festurs
LibreOffice?
LibreOffice is good as a standalone software, if you're not looking for MS Office compability. I use LibreOffice, and my sister suddenly ask me to help edit their MS Office document. It was nightmare. There are a lot of hidden gotchas that rarely reported. It's absolutely not recommended to constantly changing software if you're editing your document.
Also, at the moment, Excel has more advance feature than LibreOffice Calc.
did you try running excel on wine?
I have not and I've heard it works, but it seems to defeat the purpose of switching. :(
it doesn't.
you're free from Windows and you can still use Excel which is necessary for your work.
Look, what everyone is saying here, including me, are suggestions. Feel free to listen to some people and not some people.
LibreOffice has LibreCalc. It's free and there's a Windows version you can try.