- Word? Markdown/((Xe)La)TeX!
- PowerPoint? Beamer!
- Excel? Well, fuck this; any proper programming language does the job waaaaay better;
- Whatever their crappy attempt at db-s was called? Literally any non-crappy dbms.
Excel, not true. I mean libreoffice calc just works for a lot but not for easy basic graphs. And it does not do the job better at graphically ebabling users to do data analysis
Python and matplotlib aren’t hard… Plus you get pandas, numpy, and so on. Alternatively, R studio does such stuff ootb, as far as I remember
Idk, excel always seemed unnecessarily limiting and complicated to me compared to proper programming languages. Although that may be because I was taught cpp before this crap.
LaTeX is shit at this point. Check out https://github.com/typst/typst. I cannot go back to the awful syntax in a powerful LuaLaTeX.
Hm, looks somewhat less painful to type. Otherwise, needs further investigation; tnx!
It’s in the beta, but actively being developed. You can do a lot of stuff already, but a lot of stuff is either not implemented or janky. Overall I can cope with that. If you want to add something, just know how to write in Rust.
Do you pronounce it “typist”, “typeset” or “type es ti”?
Why not just pronounce it “typst”? (like “types” with a “t” at the end)
Yay English got its second person singular conjugation back :)
I type Thou typst She typeth
Typ as in type and st as in street. One syllable with many consonants.
It’s still new and I didn’t ask authors this question and doc doesn’t talk about it either.
The (libre) office suite is geared towards business and school stuff, they are far from perfect but does 90% of what people need.
Word/LibreOffice Writer
Have their uses, just keep the document below like 50 pages.
LaTeX is great for academic papers and when you need the document to look crisp!
And you are right about Markdown it’s great for many documents.Excel/Calc
Spreadsheets are great for data entry and some calculations especially financial stuff. You can’t do that as easily inside a source file.
PowerPoint, you are probably right about beamer?
Access
Utter garbage “database” maybe if you need something to keep your record collection? If you know the basics of relational databases and a bit of SQL any proper DB is soo much better.
run the web version of ms office inside a windows virtual machine, very efficient.
Honest question: does Crossover actually increases compatibility over raw Wine or PlayOnLinux?
For things like Office yes I still wasn’t able to aceess VBA properly not that it’s relvant ot me anymore
Running libreoffice for windows on wine
Is this really what excites people?
