And Libreoffice is great. I got through grad school using it. I had to look up a lot of the button locations and formulas but not having Onedrive hork up everything made it all worth it.
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Same. LibreOffice and Latex
Overall Libre Office works fantastic. My only gripes is inserting an image into a document is way worse than word still, but overall it's only a mild inconvenience.
Word only gets worse each update, and libre just gets better each update
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Which is entirely tragic, because LibreOffice is good, I respect hand coding more than the products of a prompt slot machine.
'prompt slot machine' <- I'm borrowing that
Enjoy, its such a good turn of phrase!
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It's good enough that my 75yo mother picked it up without trouble when I switched her to Mint after W10 went EoL.
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Had the same reaction with the Photoshop ai clone when se already have projects like gimp
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LibreOffice is great, but it has some glaring issues that keep it out of the mainstream. In my experience it can't handle multiple monitors with different scaling, comments on 365 don't import, formulas in sheets break, etc.
Some of these issues come from Microsoft, but other FOSS office suites like ONLYOFFICE have overcome them so it's doable.
I get the sense their tech stack is very rigid so that may be why iteration is slowed.
This. As much as I want LibreOffice to succeed (AND I WANT LIBREOFFICE TO SUCCEED SO SIT DOWN YOU IN THE BACK), having converted actual work projects over to LibO and maintain them has been hell, to say the least.
2026 and tables and text boxes still explode the document into confetti if you look at it funny. Hours of frustratingly reconstructing documents, or reloading progress saves because moving a text box one pixel over makes things explode.
LibO needs QA and maintenance fixes, badly. If you don't want LibO to use AI models to bug hunt, then enlist and help fix it. Development in turning LibO from a messy desk project to something actually useable efficiently has taken literal decades already.
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Jesus fuck did the LLM slop bots come out?
Why the fuck is everyone in favor of slop apps now?
The comments here are insane
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This is actually one of the best things of this year. First they shit on adobe and now Microsoft, the two most hated and worst hurdles in the way of people switching to Linux. I’m actually predicting that there will be regulations now by the government over this stuff (it won’t work or do anything of course because it’s not even touching their code base) since our government loves money and corporations more than humans.
what is this referring to?
Probably this: https://getartcraft.com/apps/wordcraft
claude, make everything on my website a pointless animation. No i don't care about readability.
i feel like everytime this is my old man yells at cloud moment but i really hope we don't get a web where every single element has to slide in.
At least it's viewable without javascript.
Well that's pretty much this age's version of animated gifs everywhere
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Oh my god my framerate! How the hell do you make a WEBSITE lag?!
By vibecoding it
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I see it as a proof of concept. Whether these products deliver or not doesnt matter. What matters is components within proprietary tools can now be replicated in a fast and effective way.
Not everything from AI is slop. AI in the hands of good developers can be powerful and help make open source projects more productive. It needs careful governance and quality control, but this kind of stuff helps level the playing field as resource limited projects can do more with what they've got.
Without commenting on Microsoft and Adobe specifically, because I couldn’t care less about their fates, I find the prospect of no longer being able to make a living from making and selling software deeply depressing.
I could put my heart and soul into an app, stick it on a marketplace, and someone gets their LLM to RE the binary back into source code to repackage and distribute it. LLMs were built on theft but now they enable even more of it. As a SWE I’m quite demoralised.
I really did want to get out of selling my hours to an evil corporation by instead selling my own works of passion as apps, but this has really thrown a spanner in the works. I don’t want to have to use an always-online SaaS/licencing model instead, because I believe consumers should own things. This does feel like the final straw pushing me out of software entirely.
I have played around in it for a few minutes and so far I'm impressed. The file size is tiny by modern standards. It loads super fast, is responsive, much better than the enshitified crap that is the "real" MS Word from what I can see. It is missing some of the more advanced features but most people won't be using them. What's there seems to be functional enough that a lot of people wouldn't even see a drawback.
I played around with the photoshop clone as well. I'm not 100% familiar with the modern photoshop since I use Krita for most of my needs but I've been able to do a few basic things to test out like drawing, filling, transforming an image, warping text and things like that and haven't found anything broken so far.
I hate AI but anything that pries away the enshitifying grip the likes of Adobe, Microsoft and Autodesk have on the industry I'll welcome.
It’s definitely vibe coded, you’re in a hive mind that assumes nothing has changed since gpt3.
I hate what ai is, but I’m not stupid enough to think it’s not good at churning out good code at this point, my ethics still tell me to never use ai again and to runaway from the entire industry at this point.
Remember if the OSI/FSF actually cared about the gas generators/theft/Palantir, anti LLM amendments would be introduced in GPLv4 & Apache v3 & BSDv7.
Remember if the OSI/FSF actually cared about the gas generators/theft/Palantir, anti LLM amendments would be introduced in GPLv4 & Apache v3 & BSDv7.
They freak out every time such possibilities are discussed, like "oh, no, the freedom number 0, that won't be open source", but I ask myself who decides what open source is. if it's something really community-based, the community must be able to have a say in such matters, but they're always dismissed, in favor of what a small group decided a few decades ago and imposes on us without any margin of popular participation
Be the change you want to see https://github.com/non-ai-licenses/non-ai-licenses
I’m out for it as a profession the industry has made clear it’s ethics.
Edit: Here’s another that prohibits LLM usage not just training https://ihateailicense.eu/
That's just licenses to prevent use in training data, but other LLM related use is unspecified.
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