2026-09-13 13:28 UTC
their preferred office suite
Usually it’s not “their preferred office suite” but “office suite they are forces to use at work”. MS Office usage is high because of network effect, not because any other office suite is worse.
I use LO Writer for any document I write (or work with) myself and it’s perfectly fine. The only reason I keep MS Office is that I need to work on documents other people write (or need to work with).
Of course there are people who actually prefer MS Office, but it’s similar to Windows itself: most people did not choose it, they either don’t know there is an alternative or are forced to use it for compatibility reasons (at work). It’s rare that anyone actually “prefers” MS software.
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@thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 2026-09-13 16:32
MS Excel is unfortunately still unmatched; and is literally the only reason why most people still use the MS Office suite.
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@deczzz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-09-14 21:40
I have love for LibreOffice Writer and Impress but it is nowhere near as polished as Word or PowerPoint. Used on Linux and Windows. I switched from Windows to cachyos on my work laptop. First I open Writer, I get lag when scrolling. Fix on arch wiki, cool, but still. The interface is a mess, i.e. the Paragraph Style panel doesn’t scale and is pretty unusable with the tabbed Interface layout. Pinch to zoom doesn’t work. Generally feels laggy and slow. Impress is also such a hassle to get shit done compared to PowerPoint, i.e. lack of good snap grids and guides.