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Re:Danish Ministry Replaces Windows and Microsoft Office wit... by nradov on Thursday June 12, 2025 @11:32AM (#44258954)
The 80/20 rule doesn't apply here because it turns out the "20" is different for everyone. If you take away one critical piece of user or organization's workflow then it doesn't really matter that everything else still works.

For LibreOffice there is still a huge functionality gap in VBA support. This is mission critical in a lot of places.

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Re:Danish Ministry Replaces Windows and Microsoft Office wit... by rpdillon on Thursday June 12, 2025 @08:30PM (#44264633)
I'm just saying 80% of spreadsheet users' needs are covered by 20% of excel's features. We can adjust those percentages, but I do think the principal holds that some features are used by a broader population of others, and Calc tends to focus on those features.
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