LibreOffice is more than slightly worse, but FOSS projects cover the gamut. The thing about them is that the best ones are usually laser focused on exactly what the user needs, rather than what makes the most money.
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Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 days ago
Sometimes slightly worse. Like LibreOffice.
Sometimes actually better, like VLC.
Sometimes about the same, like the latest version of MuseScore (older versions were, in fact, quite a bit worse).
But sometimes, like with older versions of GIMP (I’ll admit, I’ve not tried its latest major version release candidate) it’s significantly worse.
tyler@programming.dev 2 days ago
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Calc was actually quite comparable for 90% of Excel features I have ever actually used.
Writer is petty good on its own, but the fact that .docx documents don’t quite matchup vs. When making and opening with Word makes it difficult for me to use officially.
Impress is just plain disappointing compared to PowerPoint.
Base might be okay, better than nothing I guess.
The rest of the suite I don’t know.
Wooki@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Dont edit in shitty formats, edit native, publish to pdf. Skip the pointless MS Office step.
eatham@aussie.zone 2 days ago
They can also open open document files in word just fine
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 2 days ago
I genuinely doesn’t know there’s paid media player out there, VLC came preinstall on all my prebuild PC purchase since forever.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 days ago
There definitely exist paid players out there (or at least used to…dunno if they still exist), but there are also “free” (as in beer) non-free (as in speech) options, like the ones included out of the box in a Windows or macOS installation.
thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
PSA: Inkscape is good now!
Wooki@lemmy.world 2 days ago
365 is far worse IMO. New web only apps (replacing all the desktop apps) are a big step backwards. LibreOffice does everything needed natively and a lot more.
bufalo1973@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
It’s the return of the network computer of the 9xs. But worse.
ulterno@programming.dev 2 days ago
For LibreOffice, I’d go with, worse and better at the same time.
- I have just noticed, overtime, that it has some problems in some cases, where MS Office does better, while there are certain cases where it does better.
There are 2 major pain points though:
- Calc UI stutters when using the scrollbar with mouse click and drag.
- Adding images to files makes the whole thing way slower than acceptable.
suzune@ani.social 2 days ago
If you like professional photography, you can try darktables. It’s a replacement for Lightroom and it’s great in my opinion.
Gimp is still useful for quick and simple edits. It’s a bit weird to use though.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 days ago
Gimp is still useful for quick and simple edits
See, the problem with that is that that’s precisely not how I use Photoshop. I don’t use it often (certainly not often enough to actually pay for it), but when I do, I tend to go fairly deep.
I should try out Darktable though. I used to use Aperture until it was discontinued, and these days I frequently use Lightroom, though I don’t really love it.
absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 2 days ago
IMO Krita is better than GIMP for the quick simple edits.
vonbaronhans@midwest.social 2 days ago
Krita isn’t that much worse than Photoshop/CSP for digital illustration. That said, going back to CSP after a year was such a relief I didn’t know I needed. So many little stumbling blocks removed.
rockSlayer@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I wonder how many paid apps were utterly decimated after they released VLC
absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 2 days ago
To quote a non-computer savvy friend from a few years ago. When he was talking to someone else, I just over heard the conversation.
Na, I use VLC player. It always works, it will play a slice of cucumber.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Libreoffice is slightly worse because all the proprietary office suites keep lowering the bar for everyone to follow them. It’s not a quality issue, it’s a never ending contest to figure out how to complicate writing a simple letter so that everyone has to buy only your software.
Baku@aussie.zone 23 hours ago
I actually find MS Word really clunky, laggy, buggy, and generally intuitive. LO I only find to be clunky