Office Drama on macOS

Re:Office Drama on macOS by macintux on Thursday August 13, 2020 @09:45AM (#24143257)

Pretty much any time there’s a viable alternative to a Microsoft product, I find the alternative to be a breath of fresh air. There’s something about Windows software in general that makes me feel like I’m in a prison camp relative to good macOS applications.

OmniGraffle vs Visio. Keynote vs PowerPoint. Numbers vs Excel.

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Re:Office Drama on macOS by qubex on Thursday August 13, 2020 @10:14AM (#24143529)

I know precisely what you’re referring to. I used to call it the “Cocoa Smell” when I’d come across an application designed for OS X’s native APIs and not some port of something more or less haphazard.

I suppose now they’re more varied (SwiftUI or whatever the technology of the day may be), but there’s a distinct “this is native” vibe from certain alternative applications that doesn’t emanate from others.

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Re:Office Drama on macOS by sukilot on Thursday August 13, 2020 @12:32PM (#24145193)

Your comment boils down to "whenever there's a better alternative, I like the better alternative better."

Then again, Google Apps is a viable alternative to MS Office, and fresh air it is not.

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