They’re in their 60’s, finally convinced them.

They say things like “This is the same…”

and I’m like

“Ya because that’s Firefox, the only program you use…”

“What was Windows even doing for us?”

  • @[email protected]
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    153 months ago

    Libreoffice has an option for a ribbon user interface. It makes it nearly identical to Microsoft’s stuff that I grew up on.

    • @[email protected]
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      163 months ago

      Onlyoffice is a near clone of MS office though, so there’s basically no friction in adopting it unless you’re heavily into advanced Excel features.

      • @[email protected]
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        3 months ago

        From my experience, OnlyOffice provides better compatability with MS Office-files (that is, more so than LibreOffice). However, having used Powerpoint quite a lot in my professional life, and using OnlyOffice Presentation to make a slide deck now, that is an area where I unfortunately find it severely lacking. There’s also the issue about their license - I am not all that familiar with it, but apparently they are not as free and open as they claim to be.

        • @Anticorp
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          23 months ago

          What ever happened to Open Office? That used to be the defacto replacement to Microsoft Office. I haven’t used office tools on a personal computer in over a decade though, so I’m very out of the loop there.

          • @ozymandias117
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            93 months ago

            For historical info - Oracle bought OpenOffice and started to close it down, so all the developers that worked on it forked it into LibreOffice

            Oracle has since given OpenOffice to an open source group, Apache, but the main development still happens on LibreOffice

    • UndeadFoodSnob
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      If it was for me, I would support a FOSS alternative but, parents didn’t enjoy the Libreoffice experience.

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        I’ve never really liked the UI in LibreOffice either. It’s usable, but always felt clunky to me. And it feels so heavy and ponderous to use. That says something from someone who wears the sackcloth and ashes of FreeCAD…

        I did use OnlyOffice for a bit and I thought it was better for my needs than LibreOffice. But it was still overkill my current needs. So now I’m down to just AbbyWord and Gnumeric since I only need the odd document and simple spreadsheet.

        Edit for missed word

    • @[email protected]
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      I tried to find this, but had big issues finding where to toggle this. I find the default UI very cluttered and confusing.

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          I can’t actually find the View-menu (or any other of the usual File, Edit etc.). Maybe it doesn’t play nice on KDE under Wayland? In LibreOffice Impress I can right click the gutter and click “More” and bring up what is called “Options - LibreOffice”. Here I can find “Peronsalization” which allows me to select different themes (to no effect) and that’s it.