LibreOffice is preinstalled in Pop OS, and as someone who loves the idea of FOSS I want to use it, but inevitably I just use Google docs or Office Online. Is it really worth learning? Has anyone successfully incorporated it into your workflow?

  • Espi@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I use it, I also hate it with a passion. I also hate Microsoft Office, its a little better but not worth installing and registering.

    Nowadays if I need to write something I use either plain text, Markdown or LaTeX depending on what I’m doing. For presentations I use LaTeX, Draw.io or Google Slides. For spreadsheets I haven’t found anything decent yet so I end up using Calc.

    Anyways, the Google alternatives are decent to be honest, I just prefer to avoid Google, otherwise I would use Docs, Slides and whatever their spreadsheet app is called.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah this is what happened to me. I use LibreOffice in the event that I need to work with Office documents, but if I’m writing something myself, I’m pretty much exclusively in Markdown. It’s just faster for my uses, and the files are nice and portable.

    • saucyloggins@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Lol I’m kind of the same. I LOATHE Office and I hate having to use LibreOffice. I have nothing against LibreOffice per say. I just feel every time I open an office suite for work which I do a lot, that it’s the least efficient way of doing things. Though obviously your average use wouldn’t get by with anything else.

      I do appreciate Libre Calc. I like that it’s a true spreadsheet without trying to tack on a billion features like tables etc. I use it for csv files often.