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Re:German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice by maxcoder4 on Thursday April 04, 2024 @08:45PM (#39937567)
I am exclusively Google office user, but... Out of the top of my head:

* Google docs are uglier than Microsoft word documents. This matters when I prepare an offer that I want to send to a client, and it should look good.

* Google slides are hideous, and the only reason I get away with using them is because programmers (including me) have no taste[1]

* Related to the looks, I sometimes buy paid document templates that I can use to format my offers. They often have an option to download a docx file, but it's complex through that you can't important it to Google docs without breaking it completely.

* Word/Libreoffice works offline (maybe docs with serviceworkers too? It never worked for me when I needed it).

* You can use word to generate documents using a template, don't think it's possible with Google docs

* Macros are not supported in Google docs

And I'm a complete noob when it comes to document editing software and actively avoid it. I can only imagine how much powerusers miss.

[1] https://medium.com/@laurajavier/google-slides-is-actually-hi...

Re:German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice by lokar on Friday April 05, 2024 @12:13AM (#39938618)
Word is also ugly. When I care what it looks like I use LaTeX.
Re:German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice by elevatedastalt on Thursday April 04, 2024 @09:18PM (#39937750)
Is it just about the default font? Most office workers have 0 sense of aesthetics and sometimes official guidelines actively make things ugly (like forcing fonts like Times New Roman on everyone). Or the cutesy Calibri on official notices.
Re:German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice by WWLink on Thursday April 04, 2024 @09:28PM (#39937799)
MS Word templates are one of the most awful things I've ever messed with. I had a fun time using them with pandoc to produce autogenerated word documents. ARGH! The nightmares!

We should just all get off our butts and learn LaTeX! Not that I have. ahhahahaha.