• buttnugget@lemmy.worldBanned
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    Microsoft Word is just fine. I assume most of the hate is for Microsoft because Word works just fine for most people’s use cases.

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      All the issues mentioned in the OP are longstanding issues with word. It’s not “just fine”. It’s really annoying.

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        PDF is not meant to be edited, it’s meant to be a digital representation of physical paper.

        The other problems are just people who don’t actually learn to use Microsoft Word, you certainly can add more words to spellcheck and you can change how images and text interact, the only thing I can think of that caused issues is at one point they changed the default, too many people never learned how to change the layout and keep expecting the old behavior after the change.

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          These people don’t want to hear it. They’re obsessed with the cult of hating Microsoft. If they said, software should be libre/open source and LibreOffice is superior in that regard, I could take them seriously.

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            That’s not the problem of a text editor from the 90s. That’s the problem of people who need that function. If only there were several fine tools for that function that already exist.

            Microsoft word also doesn’t let me edit SOLIDWORKS files, and yet I somehow find it in my heart to not shit on word for this.

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      For me, it isn’t that it doesn’t work, it works fine enough most of the time. It’s that it’s so heavy! My work PC is just an office special and it can chug with all the bloat from the office suite. Especially Outlook. God I hate Outlook.

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      Carving animals on the wall of the cave is just fine. I assume most of the hate is for caves because carving animals on the wall works just fine for most ungabungas’ use cases.

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        Fine if you’re so evolved, what’s your magnificent “good” document editor?

        And if you say libre office I’m going to laugh at you forever.

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            Seems solid, although I think it’s safe to say for the core function it doesnt look as powerful as word (which is fair since most people don’t need that) and it does seem to have nice add-ons like graphs and code blocks.

            I would be cautious about using a markdown editor and assuming it’s cross-compatible. Core markdown is shockingly limited, and every other flavor seems just a little bit different from one another. Whether it’s how they do code blocks, or how they add other functions, there’s always something. But as long as you’re not switching between tools that’s no risk.

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              I’m not sure about charts but code snippets and blocks are handled the same as standard markdown:

              function myFunc(arg1, arg2) {
                const test = 'This is a string';
              
                return null;
              }
              

              It also supports exporting to a variety of formats, although I can’t speak to the accuracy when reading them in other applications as it’s not a feature I’ve used.

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        I’m not sure which is worse, the fact that you thought this was clever and relevant or the fact that other people upvoted it and helped to validate your unbounded idiocy.