Re:"LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying."
by bombcar on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:23PM
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Exactly, it was using the file utility to determine what it was so it could print it correctly (by processing it if needed to a format the printer understood) and there was a bug in that.
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Re:"LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying."
by bitwize on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:37PM
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This is one of those "VLC is slow to start because of a bug in Windows" things. It's VLC's responsibility to ensure their program runs properly on the OS people actually have. It's LibreOffice's responsibility to ensure that their files print on Tuesday irrespective of bugs in CUPS (which ships with the Mac).
Re:"LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying."
by ssl-3 on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:45PM
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It's important that software behaves well on systems with bugs. (All systems have bugs.)
Re:"LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying."
by braiamp on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:55PM
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So, Windows gets a pass for being sloppy coded? Give me a break. Every software must fulfill their contract with every consumer rather than consumer have to work around producers quirks. "All means are fair except solving the problem"[0]
0: https://yosefk.com/blog/all-means-are-fair-except-solving-th...