alt Hacker Newsevery time i open libre office, i do think that micrsoft is paying them lots of money to stay that ugly.
In reality the office work will be replaced not by libre office, but something like claude work. It's an obvious direction.
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bigyabai • yesterday at 5:28 PM
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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bigstrat2003 • yesterday at 5:37 PM
Who cares? I use software to do a job, not to have pretty graphic design elements.
svachalek • yesterday at 5:30 PM
In other news, Claude outages today.
It it can do the job, i'll take ugly.
Why do you think CLIs and TUI are making a huge comeback.
Web applications were prettier but so bloated and so slow.