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dantheclamman to [email protected]English • 2 years ago

Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years

www.bleepingcomputer.com

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Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years

www.bleepingcomputer.com

dantheclamman to [email protected]English • 2 years ago
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    Does liber office make .docx files and export to pdf?

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      Yes.

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      Does liber office make .docx files and export to pdf?

      It does. It’s fine as a replacement for Word, but no one has an answer for Excel. LibreOffice Calc is fine for a basic spreadsheet, but Excel is in a completely different universe than Calc with anything beyond that.

      To be fair though, Excel is in a completely different universe than literally any other competing product.

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        I think calc is fine for a lot of use cases. I use it all the time. It is different though.

        For advanced stuff I’d rather use Python anyway to be honest.

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          Excel has built-in Python support now. I wish I was joking.

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            Yes… processed on the cloud. Lol.

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        Do you know how both of those compare with Google Sheets?

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          Sheets is capable enough for the average person but a business is always going to want to use Excel because it’s the industry standard.

          I can’t remember the last time I actually needed a spreadsheet for anything other than looking at a bunch of tabular data, but I’m a programmer so I’m not the standard spreadsheet user.

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            I’m a programmer so I’m not the standard spreadsheet user.

            But then what do you use for database???

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              But then what do you use for database???

              Probably a database.

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                Lol exactly

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              JSON files that get committed to a git repo, obviously. They’re in a private repository in GitHub so that takes care of security and resiliency, two birds with one stone.

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                At first I was certain this was going to be sarcasm.

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            If you are an accountant, then it’s your beast of burden.

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              Accountant here. I prefer libreoffice calc.

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            Gotcha, that makes sense. Thanks for your reply!

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          Nothing compares to excel. There are spreadsheets, and there is excel. The world runs on excel, and for a damn good reason. Also, excel runs the world, literally.

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            So you’re telling me that Excel is very good at stuff?

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        Just use SQL. Even SQLite.

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      It wouldn’t be as good as everyone says if it didn’t.

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      Yes, and recent versions of MS Word can also read odt, so no need for docx just to work with Word users.

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      Yup

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        Nice 👍

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