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One of you faggot fucks has to have an opinion based on experience. I am moving from winblows to Linux Mint, I am so fucking tired of the shit.

Now I have a question:

Libre Office or Open Office?

which one is best?, don't rail me for bullshit or the rest, I just need some real opinions from ppl who use them

One of you faggot fucks has to have an opinion based on experience. I am moving from winblows to Linux Mint, I am so fucking tired of the shit. Now I have a question: Libre Office or Open Office? which one is best?, don't rail me for bullshit or the rest, I just need some real opinions from ppl who use them

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Never worked with datasets that large. At most a couple of thousands rows spread over half a dozen tabs. Lots of embedded charting.

I saved it in native ODS and told them not to be confused that it wasn't an XLS. Excel had no problems that I ever knew about.

I did NOT try to produce an XLS for them nor use that XML-wrappered proprietary-blob shit Microsoft was peddling as their "open" format.

Maybe i just hit the sweet spot in use cases but I did not exceed it's abilities or have exchange problems.

Edit: I do not recall the versions involved on either side but this was the 2008 to 2012 time frame.

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Im thinking of having 2 computers with a shared volume

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Problem with that is you're chasing the lowest common denominator. Windows will at some point bite you.

I ditched OS/2 Warp for Linux in 1997 (had my fill with WfW and saw the coming new wave for the shite that it was). Only Windows I kept around was in a VM to run Quicken, and that I kicked to the curb when they switched to a subscription model.

If you HAVE to have MS Orifice a VM sharing a folder in your home dir is workable. But I strongly suggest testing Libre Office to see just how much you can live with it. Leaving Windows feels really good.

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Right now Libre Calc is not workable for what I do. I suspect its a new bug because I don't remember having this much difficulty with it 8 years ago.

I'm happy not letting the windows machine on the internet.