Comment by joseda-hg
1 day ago
The problem being, one of the biggest hurdles for any office suite that isn't Google's or Microsoft's is adoption, and one way to mitigate that is making a clone
The nerds will send you a PDF generated from a LATEX file, but most office workers in the world don't care enough to figure out why the shortcuts they memorized 20 years ago don't work in 'weird word' or their formulas break on 'weird excel'
This is it. I daily drive Linux at my current job but worked with Excel for a decade at my precious jobs and it's incredibly annoying to have to stop my workflow and figure out where LibreOffice hid the menu option for things I have hotkey memory for in Excel. Yes I know they're not the same, but I honestly don't care, I just want to create a table and sort by a column so I can move on to my DevOPS tasks.