had to chuckle just a bit when i saw the new 'leaner' win x64 download is larger than the previous versions' installers still sitting there.
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Maybe leaner means using being less resource intensive while operating?
I understand that Microsoft documents are everywhere so I hope in some point in the future, LibreOffice would ditch all support of Microsoft files and make it an optional option during installation and as a plugin.
as long as users continue ~~buying~~renting microsoft's product and continue to create files with it, competing software need to be able to open them. if a program can no longer open those bastardized files, it is that program, not the file formats, that will fade into irrelevance fairly quickly.
Yeah I understand.
People, like me, don't use these Microsoft files anymore but I understand I would be incredibly frustrated if one, that I need to open, lands on my lap and I can't open it.
It's just that I wonder how much code is used to even read these shitty files properly. I wonder how many human programming hours is used to deal with them that can be used to progress LibreOffice in some other way? I wonder how many times a LibreOffice programmer is yelling at their screen "WHY THE FUCK DID YOU GO TO A NEW LINE?!"
"GO TO YOUR HOME?! DON'T YOU LIKE YOUR HOME?! ARE YOU TOO GOOD FOR YOUR HOME?!"
You probably can compile LibreOffice without MS file formats. Though I agree that it would be much better software if they don't have to deal with MS bullshit.