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[-] qevlarr@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago

LibreOffice is just as good nowadays

[-] besselj@lemmy.ca 78 points 2 days ago

All the cool kids are using military-grade, open-source productivity tools now

[-] themurphy@lemmy.ml 48 points 2 days ago

Fun fact about military-grade.

It means jack shit. It's a marketing buzz word, and should be illegal to use in commercial sense.

[-] SW42@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago

It generally means the cheapest option with the simplest possible operation that does the job well enough.

[-] menemen@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I assumed it meant that they just bribed the right politician/general?

[-] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 1 points 2 days ago

LibreOffice is free so..... Yeah

[-] Siegfried@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Austriae est imperare orbi universo

[-] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 5 points 2 days ago

isn't openoffice the better one or is the jury still out on that one?

i dunno, I just wordpad everything

[-] ComradeRachel 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

LibreOffice is based on OpenOffice but OpenOffice is basically abandoned with every few updates or improvements over a good handful of years now. LibreOffice is generally seen as the successor and I wouldn’t be surprised is OpenOffice just gets archived.

[-] prole 1 points 2 days ago

absconded

Are you sure this is the word you meant to use? Having trouble parsing the sentence. How does a piece of software "abscond"?

[-] ComradeRachel 2 points 2 days ago

I meant to say abandoned, no clue why it autocorrected to that on my phone.

[-] prole 1 points 2 days ago

Ah ok I figured you meant something else.

[-] snowfalldreamland@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

I think you have it backwards. LibreOffice is the better one. OpenOffice has not seen any real updates since 2015. ( The apache foundation that is technicality still maintaining openoffice themselves say that OpenOffice has too many open security issues)

[-] Freshness5193z@reddthat.com 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I think openoffice might be better for compatibility with Microsoft format docx.

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

No, OpenOffice is dead in the water. Either use LibreOffice or, maybe, one of its forks.

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