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[–] Etterra 59 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Meanwhile, smart people: I sure do love Libre Office.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 14 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

Libre Office.

Honestly - and flame away - I hate the name. I hate saying it. It's the 'moist' of borrowed words. Leeeeeeeebr. And I'm a Canadian who did French up to university-level conversational "explain something for 20 min" French (from a gorgeous caribbean dynamo teacher, but I justif--uh, digress) so I know how to say the word and what it means.

And I still hate it. I'm a horrible person -- even before I continued French study because the prof was so engaging and energetic and brightened every room and every day and made French interesting just on inclusion.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Glad I'm not the only one questioning the name! I have a pet theory that if they changed it it'd be more popular.

[–] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] nomy@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Absolutely not

[–] Laser@feddit.org 13 points 13 hours ago

If smart people love libreoffice, then I must be dumb. Working with it always seems weird and I never like it.

Fortunately, I can use LaTeX for work; it is far from without issues but while being arcane sometimes (especially when tables are involved), it never really upsets me and the result looks very good. I can say neither for libreoffice or MS office. But at least the former doesn't charge for the experience.

I hope typst gains more traction; it seems really intuitive compared to TeX and you don't necessarily need a macro package. And while it doesn't produce the quality of TeX-based systems yet, it is already good. Then again, Knuth's goal first and foremost goal was quality (and it shows); the system just had to be usable by him.

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 6 points 13 hours ago

Don't forget GPT4All or JanAI, for those rare instances that you want to converse with a dumbass.