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Re:Microsoft's “Love” of Linux by himinlomax on Thursday November 21, 2019 @01:49PM (#21597822)
The Google Docs word processor objectively sucks, it's barely a rich text editor.

To wit, you can't even define custom styles!

Re:Microsoft's “Love” of Linux by jacquesm on Thursday November 21, 2019 @04:50PM (#21600076)
Yes, it does. At the same time it works incredibly well for collaborative editing. But the number of quirks and errors in the product are enough to drive you mad.
Re:Microsoft's “Love” of Linux by rectang on Thursday November 21, 2019 @04:48PM (#21600054)
And both Word and Google Docs pale in comparison to LaTeX for demanding customization work. But "barely a rich text editor" suffices for the vast universe of documents which barely need rich text.

Except when your target market is captured by network effects and demands a particular file format regardless of how appropriate it is for the material.

Re:Microsoft's “Love” of Linux by himinlomax on Friday November 22, 2019 @03:49AM (#21603941)
The lack of custom styles is really problematic for a very common use case, documentation. I'd rather use Markdown for the purely tech stuff, but I thought I'd use Docs for collaborating with non or less technical people. That just doesn't work, too tedious.