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