Fuck AI

I like LibreOffice, it's good

I don't mind AI, but I hate it being baked into every application with its own subscription to access. Just give me an MCP server to connect to when/if I decide I want to use AI with your application.

For a few years I had a subscription to Office. I thought I was more productive.

But I.... probably wasn't?

It's hard to qualify. LibreOffice always felt like an office suite. "You can do things here." Boom. I did it.

Office was like "But wait! There's a zillion more things you can do! Until your subscription expires at least."

But then I got curious. How exactly do I do these zillion new things in LibreOffice??? They claim to be mostly document compatible, so how do I do the same stuff?

Aha. I can actually do this shit. Turns out most of this stuff was very minor spreadsheet thingamaijggery. Want to lock rows or columns? It's slightly different. Want to do weird icons for values? It's slightly different. Etc.

Very important learning experience!

I love LibreOffice.

My only complaint using it every day at work is [a complaint against microsoft] how much my company uses microsoft products (but won't shell out for office licenses for 90% of staff) and microsoft purposefully makes their shit not display or read Libre files correctly to try to keep their grubby monopoly claws dug into everyone.

My IT staff is too stupid to send announcements out to a BCC list and causes reply-all waves about once a month so I am not holding out hope that we make any progress as a company towards smart computing.

Glad Libreoffice is getting more attention; started using it as soon i went to Linux a couple of months ago. And now, ive been slowly getting my mother on the FOSS bandwagon cause shes getting tired of MAC

The school I go to demands we use Google Docs (or Office at home) for our work. Boowomp, I'll still use LibreOffice. Fuck GenAI.

LibreOffice is great and glad they are getting the shine they deserve.

Intresting feature they have without implementing it

I've written books and papers in Writer. It does the job well.

LibreOffice is the good stuff if you need an office suite. It can do everything you might actually need and the price is right. But I'm old and retired and no longer have a need for a full office suite. I find AbiWord and Gnumeric all I need anymore. It kind of makes me sad to do so, but I uninstall LibreOffice these days.

LibreOffice is great and nice to see it getting some attention.

LibreOffice also has a nice webdav integration so you can tie a Nextcloud account in and automatically checkout and edit documents in a multi user environment. Poor mans Sharepoint.

It's wild to me that I only ever heard of LO just two years ago. (When they decided to paywall notepad it was the last straw for me.)

Feels so so good to ditch Microsoft products.

Oh what a dystopia we live in. We went from companies declaring they have AI as a feature added to their product, to companies declaring they don't have AI added to their products to promote them. A clear sign AI is complete slop.

Been using Libre Office since I moved to W10 LTSC IoT about two years ago. Libre Office just works.

As a person who works in IT support I'm not scared of AI.. I'm scared of Linux and Libre.. Modern day Microsoft don't know how to build an operating system and Microsoft from 20 years ago have no idea how to stop F#%king Excel and word from crashing for no reason.

Microsofts sheer incompetence keeps me employed. Adobe's pure evil business plan also keeps me employed.. Adobe Acrobat is one of the worst pieces of garbage software (alongside Excel and word).

Please keep telling your company how scared you are of Libre! I need my job and I hate Microsoft and Adobe more than you do.

Edit: Removed a bit that doesn't work and is just offensive..

It has totally nothing to do with Office being a pile of subscription based dogshit