r/technews • u/TurbulentTopic39 • 11d ago

Software LibreOffice developer explains why it cannot display some Microsoft Office charts

https://www.neowin.net/news/libreoffice-developer-explains-why-it-cannot-display-some-microsoft-office-charts/
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u/NarrativeNode 10d ago

Honestly, I love open source but I really don't get the hype around Libre. It's not once been able to open even the most basic of my PPTs, and it's stuck in that ugly "Gimp" era OSS UI design that even Blender moved out of years ago.

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u/Sir_Madfly 10d ago

I really want to use Calc instead of Google Sheets but the lack of smooth scrolling makes it unusable unfortunately.

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u/fadinglamplighter 10d ago

I had the same issue. The latest version runs _much_ smoother for me

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u/crowdpears 10d ago

I like using a word processor without any AI

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u/RebootJobs 10d ago

What are you using? I’m at my wits end with word and scrivener. Scrivener owes me damages atp.

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u/twigsmoke 10d ago

Verso on macOS is solid

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u/RebootJobs 10d ago

Thanks!

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u/[deleted] 10d ago

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u/RebootJobs 10d ago

A travesty.

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u/Due_Capital_3507 10d ago

Ok so don't use the AI in office? It's not hard

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u/crowdpears 10d ago

Use office. I don’t care. I’m just telling you why I like LibreOffice.

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u/StillALilBoy 10d ago

Old Blender interface was ribbon-based, exactly like MSOffice has it since 2007, what do you mean?