Maybe I'm the odd one out, but I usually don't spend my time editing documents caring about how pretty/ugly the editor is.

I quite like that Libreoffice let's me disable the confusing "strip" layout that MS Office pushes on everyone.

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SoftTalker a day ago | parent | next [-]

Yes I feel the same way. I even prefer it, it maybe looks a little dated but it's a denser UI and doesn't waste as much space on my screen.

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netdevphoenix a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Curious comment indeed made on a website not particularly known for a beautiful design

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pndy a day ago | parent | next [-]

You can see on reddit case what happens when you start adding the "beauty" factor instead of staying with the minimal interface. It may be surprising but for many hn looks good and the only thing it could have is the dark mode - which can be bring with userscripts.

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dizhn a day ago | parent [-]

The beauty factor is the facade for their full on enshittification plan. By the way I quite literally get angry when an app spends time with a bolted on dark mode instead of quite literally any basic feature. I see it all the time. The app barely works but the feature they (and a ton of users) are happy about is dark mode or a new theme.

	▲	pndy a day ago \| parent [-]
		Of course it is and it's not just reddit but literally any piece of software nowadays. It's not just about the way interface is designed but how overall application looks like and with what features keeping you in it comes. Our local Amazon equivalent here got recently a partial mobile app redesign. Application went by gamification path and it got: "challenges", worthless coupons, affiliated links program to pester your friends with. Plus, independent "notifications" in form of a banner for those stubborn users who refused to agree for "personalization". And there's also information about how much you "saved" subscribing to extra delivery service without which it's impossible to get your package on time. All of this pointless shit but for more than 20 - twenty years no user is able to change their account handle.

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maxdo a day ago | parent | prev [-]

For presentations internally i switched to https://bento.page/ , my agents doing all kind of great CSS animations.

it's not about styles, it's UX, stupid encoding questions, every time you open it, not able to handle big enough spreadsheets, and tons of problems like this.

Also changing document formatting is a pain, i do not want to do it manually , i want ai to do it for me.

On styles, office packages are more often an external communication tool, send a doc, report, to a customer, prospect etc, How can you make the doc ascetically good, if entire office package tools looks like from 90s, scroll is lagging, etc.

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maxdo a day ago | parent | prev [-]

try to open sreadsheets, especially wide/big one, and you will love it even more. I literally have to do non intuitive moves and fall back into gdrive or claude docs.