LibreOffice is available for MacOs. So I don’t see the problem.
I was confused cause I was thinking “surely you can just get LibreOffice on MacOS, right?” Just did a quick look online and lo and behold, yep. I don’t get the issue lol 😂
The issue is that working with docx files in libreoffice is less ideal than working with their native format.
but the meme is not about odt files
Sir, this is a meme community.
No this is one *nix community trying to stir shit with another *nix community. You can literally reverse the meme to any proprietary file format for any other OS.
Sir, this is a meme community.
I’m going to need to see some ID son
ODT?
Just going to drop this here, I feel like you may appreciate it:
“it’s a meme”
No it’s not, it’s a screenshot of a confusing exchange.
not even particularly confusing, it’s just two inexperienced users being inexperienced. it seems like it’s only confusing people that know OpenOffice and LibreOffice have OS X versions but somehow don’t know that not everyone knows what they’re doing.
I have been using LibreOffice on macs for years and years. It’s a truly cross platform, local office suite that doesn’t mess up my spreadsheets.
But it doesn’t have copilot integrated into it so it can constantly bother you and beg you to use it
Literally unusable
I was trying to add a column of numbers in LibreOffice Calc the other day, and I ran out of fingers. Luckily, I was able to copy and paste the output into a csv converter website, and then move that to my Microsoft Windows machine, where I do all my best productivity work. Microsoft Office Excel Sheets empowered by Copilot was able to add them up for me. (17 was the total, in case you wondered)
At that point Apple is probably expending more ressources preventing their programmers from accidentally supporting the ODT format that it would have cost them to just let them do it.
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I do not think that word means what you think it means.
It’s open, just some businesses don’t bother to support it.
On one hand, this is exactly what you get for buying apple.
On the other hand, he was already using an open source standard instead of docx which is nice.
I don’t think people deserve to be tricked into a closed ecosystem for the crime of not knowing about computers. Computers are hard.
