This is exactly my problem. I really want to do the switch, but I’m using my computer for work also, and I’ll never get by without Office nor Adobe suite.
I never felt OpenOffice and libreoffice were a decent replacement for MS office. It was too different in many ways and compatibility was never top. Since I moved to softmaker (not OSS), I’ve been happier.
How has your experience been with the softmaker alternative to excel? Do all the functions translate well? I just took a peak at their site and it looks dramatically better than libreoffice but I’d never heard of it before.
Libreoffice (and the hot garbage that is libreCalc) is not at all equivalent to the Microsoft alternatives.
Maybe for the HS student who don’t know any better.
But it’s a mess for business.
My company did a major switch to Linux, then THOUSANDS of tickets complaining about broken spreadsheets and word docs forced a lot of employees to secretly use Google Docs/Google Sheets. We had a company mandate/all-hands-on-deck to find a alternative. And now we have a hodgepodge of other BS, with tribes wanting us to get a Microsoft Office subscriptions, others pushing for forking another open-source suite, web devs building our own spreadsheet program, and accountants still secretly using Google Suite.
That’s probably wrong. You don’t want to use something other than Office or Adobe suite because you’re used to that, even though there are programs that work perfectly well for the same things available on Linux. And that’s okay. It’s okay to want to keep using what you’re used to. But it’s a lie to say you’ll never get by without those programs you’re used to.
No. No way. Not a single alternative to Photoshop comes even close. Trying to use Gimp instead is an absolute joke. I like Linux but you’re fooling yourself with this take.
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This is exactly my problem. I really want to do the switch, but I’m using my computer for work also, and I’ll never get by without Office nor Adobe suite.
the browser based office does just work if that helps. I don’t have anything for the cc side tho
libreoffice works just as good though i expect the majority of people are already using something on the web like google docs or something
adobe, agreed, unfortunately. adobe as a company is terrible but the software is great (thanks to macromedia)
I never felt OpenOffice and libreoffice were a decent replacement for MS office. It was too different in many ways and compatibility was never top. Since I moved to softmaker (not OSS), I’ve been happier.
How has your experience been with the softmaker alternative to excel? Do all the functions translate well? I just took a peak at their site and it looks dramatically better than libreoffice but I’d never heard of it before.
Libreoffice (and the hot garbage that is libreCalc) is not at all equivalent to the Microsoft alternatives.
Maybe for the HS student who don’t know any better.
But it’s a mess for business.
My company did a major switch to Linux, then THOUSANDS of tickets complaining about broken spreadsheets and word docs forced a lot of employees to secretly use Google Docs/Google Sheets. We had a company mandate/all-hands-on-deck to find a alternative. And now we have a hodgepodge of other BS, with tribes wanting us to get a Microsoft Office subscriptions, others pushing for forking another open-source suite, web devs building our own spreadsheet program, and accountants still secretly using Google Suite.
why don’t they just contribute to LibreCalc and make it better?
That’s probably wrong. You don’t want to use something other than Office or Adobe suite because you’re used to that, even though there are programs that work perfectly well for the same things available on Linux. And that’s okay. It’s okay to want to keep using what you’re used to. But it’s a lie to say you’ll never get by without those programs you’re used to.
They indicated that they want to switch, but if work forces you to use Office and Adobe then that is what you’re stuck with.
My problem is that we work together in Adobe apps at my work. I can’t switch to anything else unless the whole organisation does.
I could try to change what they use, but it’s a different task.
No. No way. Not a single alternative to Photoshop comes even close. Trying to use Gimp instead is an absolute joke. I like Linux but you’re fooling yourself with this take.
That’s not so much a Linux problem as a Corporate greed problem.
Remember a big part in Windows mobile dying was its lack of Google support and not it itself lacking in any way
Add autodesk to that, and 99% of software used in aec or civil engineering or machine stuff (can’t remember name, foreigner drunk ugh)
CNC stuff??
No no (ok sort of, there is linuxcnc) I mean design for mechanical things