• Zagorath@aussie.zone
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    4 months ago

    Sometimes slightly worse. Like LibreOffice.

    Sometimes actually better, like VLC.

    Sometimes about the same, like the latest version of MuseScore (older versions were, in fact, quite a bit worse).

    But sometimes, like with older versions of GIMP (I’ll admit, I’ve not tried its latest major version release candidate) it’s significantly worse.

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      4 months ago

      Libreoffice is slightly worse because all the proprietary office suites keep lowering the bar for everyone to follow them. It’s not a quality issue, it’s a never ending contest to figure out how to complicate writing a simple letter so that everyone has to buy only your software.

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      4 months ago

      LibreOffice is more than slightly worse, but FOSS projects cover the gamut. The thing about them is that the best ones are usually laser focused on exactly what the user needs, rather than what makes the most money.

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        4 months ago

        Calc was actually quite comparable for 90% of Excel features I have ever actually used.

        Writer is petty good on its own, but the fact that .docx documents don’t quite matchup vs. When making and opening with Word makes it difficult for me to use officially.

        Impress is just plain disappointing compared to PowerPoint.

        Base might be okay, better than nothing I guess.

        The rest of the suite I don’t know.