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Austria's military just ditched Microsoft for open-source LibreOffice

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96 points CharlesW | 5 comments | 27 Sep 25 23:57 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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billy99k ◴[28 Sep 25 00:55 UTC] No.45400808[source]▶
It's not because it's better. If you just need a basic excel/doc alternative, maybe.

As soon as you need some more complex excel calculations, LibreOffice falls flat.

Good luck getting formatting to look correct in a .doc file opened by Microsoft Office 99% of the time.

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greazy ◴[28 Sep 25 07:15 UTC] No.45402363[source]▶
Librecalc is fine and I would argue most people don't use the arcs advanced features of MS Excel.

The reason it's incompatible with MS Office is because MS doesn't use a consistent standard or the iso standard. Theyve done this as a counter measure to alternatives.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/06/adversarial-interopera...

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1. NaomiLehman ◴[28 Sep 25 11:59 UTC] No.45403697[source]▶
librecalc shuts down for me all the time on small simple documents on different OSs and hardwares. I don't know how to work with it. I'm using Onlyoffice for editing and Tad for reading csv/xlsx files now.
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2. lenkite ◴[28 Sep 25 13:10 UTC] No.45404086[source]▶
Maybe someone needs to start a LibreRiR project.
3. pabs3 ◴[29 Sep 25 03:53 UTC] No.45410195[source]▶
Links for those who hadn't heard of those:

https://www.tadviewer.com/ https://www.onlyoffice.com/

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4. aitchnyu ◴[29 Sep 25 05:23 UTC] No.45410556[source]▶
Is OnlyOffice much more productive in terms of features/week than LibreOffice that they are better? How?
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5. pabs3 ◴[29 Sep 25 09:09 UTC] No.45411711{3}[source]▶
I haven't used OnlyOffice, but I prefer the vibes that LibreOffice gives off.