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0 pointsSanguinaire4y ago0 comments

I agree that LibreOffice is basically a non-starter in this competition, but I also think you are over-selling the MS support experience - most of the information online to help with Word/Excel is rudimentary garbage cluttering up the search space.

We need a set of stand-alone Office alternatives which are fully cross-platform (so, Electron), backwards compatible with Excel spreadsheets and also offering more advanced no-code functionality, and for the Word/PowerPoint equivalents something with the power of LaTeX but an easy to use WYSIWYG fall-back.

Is that really so much to ask?...

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sharikone4y ago· 2 in thread

> Is that really so much to ask?...

Yes. You cited requirements that to be satisfied together require a huge effort. You want something that can "just work" and is also cross-platform, power user friendly (LaTeX), and should be snappy to be able to gain traction. Not to mention that you have to compete with the ecosystem lockin of Office-Teams-Onedrive-Sharepoint-Azure.

I frankly see no way a competitive alternative could appear without a billion dollar budget backing it.

SanguinaireOP4y ago

(I know, I was being sarcastic. Wondered if the ... would be semantically similar enough to /s to convey that, but clearly not.)

yodon4y ago

You may find it helpful to read up on Poe's law [0].

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law

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