I'm not here to wrangle with software when I'm trying to get things done especially under a high stress situation where time is critical. - All the formats have been destroyed - This thing has no concept of formatted table like in Excel - Cells designed to fill from a

also you can't insert an image into a cell...

To be clear, I'm not 100% mad at LO - I'm sure this has something to do with MS Office doing things outside of the OpenXML specs and therefore is probably considered out of scope or unable to replicate 1:1 feature-wise for Libreoffice (i.e., it probably is Microsoft's fault) -

For those saying try using and activating Office via scripts - this is an arch laptop. No, VM is not an option if I don't want the battery to die. I'm at a convention floor where power strip is not an option.

"just use Windows then" I would if it doesn't chew through the battery 3 times faster than on Linux 🤧

This post is nuking my notif so I'll be muting this now, but I want to make this clear before my post gets misinterpreted: I am on the FOSS side here - I appreciate the existence of LO and other FOSS alternatives and believe Microsoft is partial to the blame as they often

@AzakaSekai_ I have used both and I know. It is really close though it’s like over 90% there

@SilasOnLinux It is 80% there for the features I need yes, but it's the 20% of minor inconvenience that makes me feel like I'm wrangling against the software than being productive.

@AzakaSekai_ It's a good replacement for basic-to-medium things IMO, as a programmer i basically use it to rearrange data exports / imports and generate CSVs which is perfect for me

@Geek_Person yeah like it's fine for most things - it's when it isn't that becomes annoying

@AzakaSekai_ i have i also have o365 so current version too i prefer libreoffice entirely the only issue i have with LO is i think floating point precision errors sometimes https://x.com/MARlOMASTA64/sta...

@MARlOMASTA64 I've had many UX issues alongside issues caused by migrating from existing documents. The ones mentioned in the previous reply; Impress also screwed me over at VB2025 as well for glitched transitions. Too many issues for me to justify using it.

@AzakaSekai_ What about OnlyOffice? I heard it's better than Libre. I never used it though

@ragigas I still haven't tried it yet maybe I will at some point

@AzakaSekai_ Your problem seems to be money. If you can’t buy a new laptop with a decent battery life and pay office 365 subscription then accept the compromises of using free software, they don’t have the billions Microsoft does to keep improving excel.

@alberto0b110011 We do have legitimate enterprise licenses of MS Office - that isn't the problem here. I also don't really understand the argument of "buying a new laptop" for the sake of... better usage of Office suite. I'm on the FOSS side for this one and appreciate the existence of LO and

@AzakaSekai_ What about using Google sheets?

@reyzafany good luck on a convention floor where the internet is extremely unstable

@AzakaSekai_ LibreOffice needs a proper theme engine. It has all the features, it just looks like a 90s app., even more so on Mac.

@AzakaSekai_ If it's used for business, Microsoft Office is the standard for a reason. But if it's just a personal computer that needs a word processor/spread sheet every now and then, Libre Office will do the trick for free.

@AzakaSekai_ I'm convinced it depends on how much muscle memory and how many corner case features you need from either one. It functions. It's free. http://docs.Google.com is another free office suite alternative. I use both.

@AzakaSekai_ no power query, no data models... libre office is better than nothing but it's a toy in comparison. that's the only good thing i'll ever say about a microsoft product

@AzakaSekai_ i've been using open/libre office for over a decade now and have never had a single issue. pivot tables work great on it. it sounds like you're really hung up on a small subset of features that libreoffice didn't match precisely from excel.

@AzakaSekai_ Our drive to Libre is all about Office365 and MS minions reading every document and spreadsheet people use. It's about surveillance. I'll take reduced functionality in exchange for privacy.

@AzakaSekai_ Hilarious. The only good replacement for Office of which I am aware is Wordperfect Office. I've got both, and I actually prefer Wordperfect. The last time I looked, Corel still offers a perpetual license.

@AzakaSekai_ PREACH. libreoffice is good software but unfortunately has a lot of UI and experience issues that hamper it. When I was in college, I used it to write a term paper...and somehow it never saved it. 💀

@AzakaSekai_ I use them both on a daily basis. I prefer libre office because it is lighter, there are no silly animations... While some one could argue in favour of Excel vs Calc, Writer >>>>>>>>>>>>> Word. No discussion possible.

@AzakaSekai_ LibreOffice makes MS Office better. They tried a lot of vendor lock, vendor linking, etc. In 2001 we did PowerPoint presentations using StarOffice on Linux. The competition has kept MS less abusive.

@AzakaSekai_ I have used both and LO is good enough. Maybe the Write page layout sucks a bit if you push it beyond the basics, but the rest is more than enough for the price.

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@AzakaSekai_ It’s a functional replacement, but if it were truly “just as good” I wouldn’t have been nearly as excited for winboat as a was/am.

@AzakaSekai_ Office perpetual is like 100 USD. Using anything worse for serious work is not a smart decision. Even Apple's suite is not as good, tbh.

@AzakaSekai_ Try only office its much better IMO. I rarely boot up excel these days.

@AzakaSekai_ look it's simple. if you are an office power user, then you need ms office and windows/macos, no two ways about it.