Looking back at my transition from Windows to Linux in an anti-customer age

Re:Looking back at my transition from Windows to Linux in an... by jamiek88 on Sunday August 24, 2025 @04:59PM (#45007727)

People always say this but the 90% doesn’t count. The 90% is easy. It’s the other bit that people hit and compatibility issues mean any non standard approach whether it’s fair or not will always, always get the blame.

Plus I dispute that libreoffice has even close to 90% of what excel can do.

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Re:Looking back at my transition from Windows to Linux in an... by roscas on Sunday August 24, 2025 @05:11PM (#45007814)

Let's not compare the advanced options of Excel or how Excel bugs annoy me. There are loads of them.

Let's just compare what people do when they need a tool like Excel. That's when the 90 or maybe more % of people will do. That is what I do. Everything I do in Excel can be done on LibreCalc.

So it is true that LibreCalc can replace 90% or more, because not everybody needs those advanced topics.

Same for the other LibreOffice apps, Writer is good for almost everybody. As LibreDraw and others.

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