To play devils advocate, why does LibreOffice get the pass that it needs customization for you to like it, but office doesn’t get the same pass. I would love if we all used open software and standards, but if I ever have to give office documents to Linda in accounting, anything other than a Word or Excel document won’t compute.
Because LibreOffice is very easy to thoroughly customize with out-of-the-box functionality. In fact, recent versions of LibreOffice (or at least its flavor for OpenSUSE) allow you to customize the looks at first launch, so that you feel at home straight away.
Well of course, we have to give credit to MS, who paid a significant sum to customise our whole system and our brains to match the parameters of MS Office.
And well, if something is customisable, you would expect the makers (who are not being paid by you) to set the defaults to their requirements and not yours.
OnlyOffice if you’re there for the most classic MS Office experience.
Otherwise, did you set up LibreOffice properly so that it suits your taste?
To play devils advocate, why does LibreOffice get the pass that it needs customization for you to like it, but office doesn’t get the same pass. I would love if we all used open software and standards, but if I ever have to give office documents to Linda in accounting, anything other than a Word or Excel document won’t compute.
Because LibreOffice is very easy to thoroughly customize with out-of-the-box functionality. In fact, recent versions of LibreOffice (or at least its flavor for OpenSUSE) allow you to customize the looks at first launch, so that you feel at home straight away.
Well of course, we have to give credit to MS, who paid a significant sum to customise our whole system and our brains to match the parameters of MS Office.
And well, if something is customisable, you would expect the makers (who are not being paid by you) to set the defaults to their requirements and not yours.