I get that it’s open source provided you use codium not code but I still find that interesting
Choosing not to use good software from the same company just because another software they offer is subpar would be an unreasonable decision.
Kind of the conclusion I’d come to.
Would you use excel if it were on Linux? It’s one of the other few Microsoft products I think is actually pretty good.
Obviously not foss but still
I prefer google docs because it’s accessible through a browser wherever I want.
MS Office 365 is also fully functional in a browser these days.
Personally I prefer the offline version for various reasons.
Microsoft Office suite is obviously superior to its concurrents. If it were available on linux I’d use it, despite being about FOSS ideology. Sometimes, non-FOSS can be better alternatives. However, OnlyOffice is still neat and gets the job done.
Microsoft Office suite is obviously superior to its concurrents.
No, and it never was. There are/were always equal alternatives. It has always been their marketing power that made them (seemingly) win.
Ohh can you do Exel-Style arithmetics in Word tables? You can in LibreOffice. Maybe it’s just so widely used no one really knows other Office programs are basically on par with MS Office or even better.
Ok but most people only use very basic features of Excel and would be fine with a version from the early 2000’s. The spreadsheet market has caught up and they’d be fine with basically any product at this point. The only thing propping up Microsoft Office is the subtle incompatibilities they’ve slipped into their file formats, that people don’t want to deal with. That and the fact most people get to use their Office free one way or another, and “it’s what I’m used to”.
I don’t think I’ve touched actual desktop Office in more than a decade now. Even in a corporate environment it’s mostly their online version that gets used 90% of time by 90% of people.
Everybody needs just a small subset of that excel does, but everybody needs a different subset.
If you do not have all the features, most of your users will be missing something that is critical to their use case.
