Comment by PaulHoule
20 days ago
It's a story in Germany all the time that some open source zealots get a town government to switch to an off-brand office suite which is so bad that the government worker's union goes on strike to get Microsoft Office back.
You mean Munich, and Microsoft bribed them millions of dollars and a HQ relocation to put Microsoft Office back.
The unironic use of "off brand office suite" here is hysterically tragic.
Also, the productivity suite formerly known as Office is these days called "365 Copilot".
Most people are just highly resistant to change, even change for the better.
Ok, but let's be fair. Libre Office et al are terrible.
At this point, LibreOffice is much better than whatever Microsoft now sells as an office suite.
We have OnlyOffice as an alternative today. Personally I find the UI quite pleasing. But lately I haven't had any need to use office suite at home so I don't really use it so I have yet to find anything to complain (meanwhile, LibreOffice was horrible, while Office 365 was bearable until you stuff too many things in the equation editor).
Doesn't sound fair at all. What's so "terrible" about it in its current form?
Its really not that bad. I used to use it at work all the time. I did word processing, spreadsheets and presentations all the time with it. Maybe not as powerful as Excel, but I was never really a power user. But then again I never saw any spreadsheets that anybody used that were particularly complex.
Which one did they switch to?
Here's a case of a recent one which is early in the cycle
https://www.pcmag.com/news/german-province-ditches-microsoft...
LibreOffice isn't bad at all.
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