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0 pointssoutherntofu4y ago0 comments

If you're willing to pay for a license, why not donate to the document foundation instead? This way you get a great office suite (Libreoffice) and every one gets it too. A win-win situation?

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ivanmontillam4y ago

Unfortunately in this case, the UI/UX of LibreOffice not even comes close to MS Office's one.

Some FOSS products are that great, but if you come from MS Office, LibreOffice feels a lot like an early 2000's downgrade.

The compatibility and robustness of LibreOffice is excellent, but the UI/UX and something as simple as the default design templates that come with it, it's just not up to the level of MS Office, and customers do judge by that criteria.

I wish LibreOffice was up that standard, so there would be more consumer choice. I even tried LibreOffice as my daily driver for sometime, and I just couldn't stand it.

justsomehnguy4y ago

> the UI/UX of LibreOffice not even comes close to MS Office's one.

Except 'Import CSV' wizard, it's light years ahead of MSO's one, which didn't changed for two decades. Which is understandable, nobody [from the corporate customers with tens thousands of users] cried loud enough.

Also it doesn't even look good. MSO would use ClearType (and whatever) and looks good, LO looks like I'm in 1995 looking at 640x480 14" monitor.

robertlagrant4y ago

Perhaps; I use LibreOffice myself. I was thinking of a business doing that rather than me personally.

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