Why does LibreOffice, despite what the devs claimed in the release notes of the 6.3 version, still takes the same amount of time or even more to load changes on large documents? If I run excel 2010 on wine I can have tables with 10k rows and it won't even hiccup once. Why is LibreOffice so laggy when you're doing something bigger than a 1k rows project?
Why does LibreOffice, despite what the devs claimed in the release notes of the 6.3 version...
Camden Diaz
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Thomas Garcia
Fuck that chinkware just use cracked microsoft office in a vm
Jeremiah James
freetardware
Jordan Perez
The actual chinkware(WPS) doesn't lag, at all. It's just LibreOffice, and it never goes away no matter how many releases they create
Anthony Phillips
Can't speak for the other parts but Writer honestly just works as a good word processor.
Ryder Morales
why the fuck are you using calc for more than 1k rows?
Connor Rogers
Performance is still meh. On Mac, so might be different on Linux/Windows but here it takes noticeably longer to load a document compared to 2016 Word or Pages and scrolling through 50+ pages isn't great either. Gave up after half a decade of use and deleted it last week. MS Office is probably next, although it's nice to have a reference since others still fuck up the formatting.
Ethan Wright
I think that's the problem with open source. There's no competition. Just because it's free, there's the impression that it is good enough. When you want any program in linux, you always have few options. This also happens with shitty software like gimp or kde.
Parker Nelson
More of an initiative problem IMO. Why would you work your ass off to make something good (unless office software happens to be your passion in life) when only few people will use at best and the spastic community will find something to bitch about. Besides, it takes much more than programmers to pull off good office software. Applel and Google got almost unlimited resources and it took them a few attempts to make something "good enough". Even MS managed to fuck up here and there, and are still far from great.
Nolan Rogers
> get sent workout plan as .xlsx
> open it in calc
> Err:514 everywhere
> data missing for reps, sets, and weights
> inspect a cell and see pic related
> look up error
> apparently there's too much calculation going on and calc just gives up?
This has been the only time when calc failed me and now I have WPS installed exclusively for this file
Owen Lee
You have it backwards, that's one of the problems with proprietary software. This board is full of shills who think it's good because they paid for it. Development is expensive and people aren't used to paying for office ware, so only companies that can afford to lose money (because they sell other stuff) end up making consumer software.
The problem with open source initiatives is that they're built on donations, hobbyists, and NEETs, all of which come in short supply. There's too little money and too much autism, so nobody wants to work on projects like these and the quality suffers.
Blake Bennett
I only make small files. LibreOffice works fine. And it doesn't have the ribbons, which made Malicesoft Office unusable for me. When I tried out Office 2007, the first one with ribbons, the symbol for style sheets was so tiny compared to the other symbols that it was like a needle in a haystack. I didn't find it and had to google it. Also, apparently the ribbons should hide functions that the user doesn't currently need. Too bad ribbons also hid functions that I needed.
Lincoln Wood
Gimp was awful when I installed it on windows but is pretty awesome when run on linux.
I find a lot of linux software seems to be designed for linux and doesn't port well to windows or mac
Landon Ramirez
Yeah, very much my experience too, especially on MacOS the experience tends to be way worse (though hard to tell whether it's lack of care from the devs or Apple fucking up all the API's making it too much effort to adjust to it). Previously I worked on an damn old laptop running Ubuntu and 7, but LO felt more snappier there. Hence I even stuck to it for so long, expecting it to get better with the next update, and the next, and the next and then they made Pages useful and being able to load ridiculously large documents and scroll through these like it's nothing; so … goodbye open sores.
William Wright
Is Gnumeric unironically better at loading big files and saving them than LibreOffice?
Levi Rogers
Same user here, I just tested it and gnumeric is miles faster than LibreOffice. What the hell
Alexander Perez
Because LibreOffice uses Java for a lot of shit.
Hudson Kelly
>has 1/2 of the features
>can barely load Microsoft Office documents
Gee, I wonder why Gnumeric and Calligra loss faster.
Samuel Johnson
I don't know man, Gnumeric has all the basic things you need for spreadsheets at least for me. It sure as hell isn't a resource hog or laggy like LibreOffice so i'm going with it.
Bentley Price
For real work in a professional environment, use MS Office. For trivial inconsequential nonsense like personal budgeting or writing erotica about japanese school girls, use Libreoffice.
Chase Garcia
WPS reverse engineers Microsoft's proprietary formats and don't give a fuck because they're China despite violating the laws of US
LibreOffice doesn't because Microsoft keeps changing their shitty proprietary formats every release so that it's incompatible
Carter Torres
That's OK, just use whatever tool is right for you. Personally, I don't use spreadsheets but I need a good text editor with formulas, bibliography management and charts; so I'll stick with LibreOffice Writer.
Elijah Bell
WPS is proprietary software. So until it can be loaded as a Snap (so it can't modify system files at install and the network access can be restricted) I won't use it.
OnlyOffice is a better choice than WPS desu.
Luke Morgan
Charles Clark
>not using kde office
Nicholas Mitchell
idk about your reasoning but i do know m$ doesnt conform to their own standards which fucks everyone over