The cost is all the features you are missing.

dotancohen 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That's how I feel about using MS Office. I have a text file somewhere of all the things I couldn't do with MS Office at my last gig, that I do regularly with LibreOffice.

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lanyard-textile 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I feel like the word processor as a product is fairly "finished." There's not much about it that'd you want to change year over year. Are there any new features to write home about?

	▲	htrp 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I think the word processor, and the office suite have advanced features that would be better suited in a programming language. like mail merge or macros.... do you really need them in a day and age where you have an llm subscription is a different question

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consp 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Like? Wouldn't be surprised if those features don't matter for the 95th percentile.

	▲	hobo123 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Like loading or saving CSV files and choosing the separator character. I don't remember which, but Excel doesn't do one of them. Oh, did he say _LibreOffice_ is missing features. Well, probably it does too.