| ▲ | redeeman 2 hours ago | |
because thats not about quality, its about "i demand something thats 100% exactly the same as microsofts product, even in the places where its objectively crappier. I also wish it to track the microslop so that it consistently stays as shitty as microslop deems, so that I may never realize I use something else." | ||
| ▲ | kube-system a minute ago | parent | next [-] | |
This is the kind of attitude that will keep OSS from becoming widely adopted. If simply shipping a quality office suite was enough, this problem would have been solved last millennium. And in fact, there are many quality office suites. Organizations choose Office because it: 1. is interoperable 2. has a commercial throat to choke 3. has an existing pipeline of workers trained on it 4. has a deep feature set for edge-case power-users 5. integrates with other products and services that their customers want Every institutional office-migration project runs into these issues -- they're solvable, but damn if OSS advocates stopped pretending they didn't exist, they might actually fix them. | ||
| ▲ | gus_massa 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
> "so that I may never realize I use something else" The main reasons are: 1) ... so my muscle memory work. (In some editor Ctrl+Y is redo, in others no, I never remember in which editors, I hate when it doesn't work.) 2) ... so I can exchange files with coworkers, and they will see exactly what I wrote (I recently received an email with a draft and I complained about a missing ≥. It actually was there was the visor in Gmail was not showing it.) | ||