It sounds like you might be pirating it. Go ahead and fax the creators $100 for a home license. Dont forget to shred the money after faxing and take a video for proof.
MS also has broken and depreciated a lot of Excel’s functionality, yet it’s still the standard. People just hate change, especially the ones that aren’t actually using the product directly.
Agreed, my mom uses spreadsheets for things. Eventually just ended up paying for Office Home and Student 2024 because Calc confused her. Though when I helped her install Office, I did notice that she hadn’t updated LibreOffice in over two years. Wish I had noticed before she paid for Office to see if the updates for Calc might have fixed her issue. Also wish I had installed OnlyOffice to see if it might have matched the “feel” of Excel better before giving MS money.
Sadly I have to agree. Being able to take my excel work home with me, where I use Linux exclusively, is the sole reason that I’m forced to use OnlyOffice vs LibreOffice. It has better compatibility with Excel by a WIDE margin.
That being said, I don’t have the issue with OnlyOffice that others seem to have. It’s desktop app is still OpenSource, it’s just the online bits and collaboration stuff that isn’t. But I’d still rather go with a non-profit like the Document Foundation than a for profit company any day of the week.
It’s all Visual Basic compatibility. Many companies use macros and programs written in Visual Basic inside Excel. As long as they continue using Visual Basic, they will continue using Excel.
OpenOffice is another open source alternative that looks a bit more like Microsoft Office suite, and I think it also supports more file extensions than libreoffice(?)
I like using LibreOffice instead. Open source is always the way to go.
Are you kidding? LibreOffice just doubled their prices
I have the free version.
Edit: wait a minute, I just did a Google search and it said libre office is still free. Are you trolling or joking, lol?
It sounds like you might be pirating it. Go ahead and fax the creators $100 for a home license. Dont forget to shred the money after faxing and take a video for proof.
No a quick Google search says it’s free directly from their Website.
Cant trust Google anymore, try ChatGPT
I ALWAYS pirate libreoffice. it’s not worth filling the coffers of the billionaires.
Again?? Smh my head
Someone ought to update the spreadsheet program. Excel is the primary reason companies are stuck on MS Office.
Excel isn’t even that great and could be improved greatly, but unfortunately LibreOffice Calc is even worse currently.
I fucking hate that it is named calc and it’s 50/50 if it orders itself above the calculator when I search for it.
I agree but I just type calcu and that narrows it. Or if the calculator is a common thing to run, either a keyboard shortcut or taskbar.
I imagine it’d be easy to override the system .desktop file with your own with whatever name you’d like to give it
MS also has broken and depreciated a lot of Excel’s functionality, yet it’s still the standard. People just hate change, especially the ones that aren’t actually using the product directly.
Agreed, my mom uses spreadsheets for things. Eventually just ended up paying for Office Home and Student 2024 because Calc confused her. Though when I helped her install Office, I did notice that she hadn’t updated LibreOffice in over two years. Wish I had noticed before she paid for Office to see if the updates for Calc might have fixed her issue. Also wish I had installed OnlyOffice to see if it might have matched the “feel” of Excel better before giving MS money.
It’s shockingly similar in a lot of ways. Just barely different enough to not get sued, I’d imagine.
Sadly I have to agree. Being able to take my excel work home with me, where I use Linux exclusively, is the sole reason that I’m forced to use OnlyOffice vs LibreOffice. It has better compatibility with Excel by a WIDE margin.
That being said, I don’t have the issue with OnlyOffice that others seem to have. It’s desktop app is still OpenSource, it’s just the online bits and collaboration stuff that isn’t. But I’d still rather go with a non-profit like the Document Foundation than a for profit company any day of the week.
It’s all Visual Basic compatibility. Many companies use macros and programs written in Visual Basic inside Excel. As long as they continue using Visual Basic, they will continue using Excel.
LibreOffice also has LibreOffice Basic, but Visual Basic is definitely easier to find help for online.
same here
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OpenOffice is another open source alternative that looks a bit more like Microsoft Office suite, and I think it also supports more file extensions than libreoffice(?)
LO is a fork of OO after there was a spat (it’s been like, at least 15y now); LO is the successor, most have migrated long ago
Weird, I found OO was a better and more modern experience than LO.
I’m guessing they’re talking about Open Office, while you’re comparing to Only Office.
I’m starting to think open source may not win the “great job naming things” trophy, this year, either.
I currently have both and Libre is better. IMO. It depends on what you use it for.
Libre office is the successor to Open office.
You might be thinking of OnlyOffice…?
Yeah, I think you’re right.