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Re:EU tech sector fights for a Level Playing Field with Micr... by rolandog on Friday November 26, 2021 @05:08PM (#29354705)
> The EU tech sector needs to build something better. LibreOffice and Linux as it stands is not it. I tried over and over again to use it but it’s just not good.

Can you elaborate?

I have had quite a nice experience on the Linux ecosystem and with LibreOffice too.

But there's usually a point where you realize that "this should've been a script" ™. I do concede that Excel pushes that point further down the road with what I remember to be better performance when working with bigger files, but by no means something so drastic.

Re:EU tech sector fights for a Level Playing Field with Micr... by hvgk on Friday November 26, 2021 @06:17PM (#29355306)
Well in my case there is always something hideously broken. For example I had a problem a couple of years back where libreoffice would take 3 minutes to open a sheet when my printer was turned on. Then there’s days where if I close the lid on the laptop I had to pray to all the gods of the disc that it’d wake up again without smiting me in some horrible way. And then there’s the usual face punch where I just want to solve a problem, not solve a whole tree of problems.

I don’t work on anything exceptional really. It’s all simple stuff. But there’s just so many broken things all the time that I had to walk away.

I’m writing this on the only tool I’ve got that doesn’t melt in my hands regularly, an ass end 9th gen ipad paired with a fairly old apple keyboard. It just works. This gives me more time to do things I actually derive value from in my life.

Re:EU tech sector fights for a Level Playing Field with Micr... by _dain_ on Friday November 26, 2021 @06:24PM (#29355348)
Re:EU tech sector fights for a Level Playing Field with Micr... by atian on Friday November 26, 2021 @05:27PM (#29354880)
> But there's usually a point where you realize that "this should've been a script" ™.

There is less accountability for essential business functions that a product provides.

Re:EU tech sector fights for a Level Playing Field with Micr... by hvgk on Friday November 26, 2021 @06:23PM (#29355339)
To be fair Microsoft have no accountability either. But it’s easier to tick the ISO 27001 or SOC compliance box when they pretend they have some accountability.