nice hahaha
And IIIIII helped!
I ditched MS office for Libre long time ago, all I need it for is to open and view the occasional document anyways. For creating or editing documents I like Googles office suite better though
Haven't used ms products in a decade.
My Microsoft boycott was longer
It's like this meme:
Alternative to Photoshop: Cracked Photoshop Alternative to Office: cracked office
XD
Is it finally the year of foss? I love LibreOffice and started using it years back for personal use not wanting to bother with buying another Microsoft Office version once the one I had stopped getting security updates.
Obligatory comment that endorses pirating software. We need to make sure this stereotype about Lemmy remains accurate.
Is it the best free option? It works fairly well although I can still kill it sometimes.
I know there's a few other alternatives like OnlyOffice, wps office etc but these might be freemium.
I've been using LibreOffice for years and it is fantastic -- although I have always had problems importing PowerPoints. Xcel and Word documents are fine, but PowerPoint is always a mess.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/13/libreoffice_wasm_zetaoffice/
Native Realtime collaboration on documents and spreadsheets is the last feature holding us back from switching in business environments.
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