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A comment on Ask HN: Name popular apps that have better open-source alternatives?.

Re:Ask HN: Name popular apps that have better open-source al... by montgomery_r on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @07:01AM (#35054380)
Word < emacs
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Re:Ask HN: Name popular apps that have better open-source al... by node_monk on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @09:49AM (#35055926)
Not for a layman though
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Re:Ask HN: Name popular apps that have better open-source al... by montgomery_r on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @03:03PM (#35060419)
Fair enough, but the couple of hours it takes to learn to do Word level stuff in Emacs will be many times repaid by the time you don’t spend swearing at Word….
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Re:Ask HN: Name popular apps that have better open-source al... by schwartzworld on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @11:40AM (#35071201)
Pandoc + markdown > both of them
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