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[โ€“] empireOfLove@lemmy.one 182 points 2 years ago (27 children)

Honestly, its gotta be the MS Office suite.

Yes if you're just writing your own simple documents libreoffice/OpenOffice will work, but if you have to do anything more complex than a single page spreadsheet, text-on-white presentations, or 3 page MLA book reports.... or, even worse, have to interact with documents and spreadsheets created by basically any other person on the planet, I've just never had a good consistent experience with any of the free options.

[โ€“] zer0@thelemmy.club 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you have to interact with documents created by others it would be better to use open formats not proprietary shit designed to be not cross compatible

[โ€“] empireOfLove@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago

Unfortunately industry and academia does not view it in such a manner... those microsoft contracts are too appealing for them lol

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