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2 months ago by PlaidBaron to c/linuxmemes

chris 228 points 2 months ago

LibreOffice is available for MacOs. So I don't see the problem.

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okay_employee96 97 points 2 months ago

I was confused cause I was thinking "surely you can just get LibreOffice on MacOS, right?" Just did a quick look online and lo and behold, yep. I don't get the issue lol 😂

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fushuan 8 points 2 months ago

The issue is that working with docx files in libreoffice is less ideal than working with their native format.

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WhyJiffie 5 points 2 months ago

but the meme is not about odt files

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fushuan 3 points 2 months ago

The post (not a meme) is about not being able to import odt into Pages, and the solution being having to first export to docx. Yeah they can just use libreoffice but that's not the point.

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PlaidBaron 38 points 2 months ago

Sir, this is a meme community.

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kingofras 30 points 2 months ago

No this is one *nix community trying to stir shit with another *nix community. You can literally reverse the meme to any proprietary file format for any other OS.

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Serinus 18 points 2 months ago

But.. it's not proprietary. The devs could just... read the spec and implement it. It's probably even easier than that if there are libraries to help.

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atopi 1 point 2 months ago

You can install libreoffice using the nix package manager, but im unsure how this is relevant

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PlaidBaron -11 points 2 months ago

Sir, this is a meme community.

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kingofras 22 points 2 months ago

I’m going to need to see some ID son

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FishFace 11 points 2 months ago

The meme isn't very good though

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PlaidBaron -6 points 2 months ago

ThE mEmE iSnT vErY gOoD tHoUgH

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FishFace -1 points 2 months ago

It's ok, hun

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TrickDacy 10 points 2 months ago

"it's a meme"

No it's not, it's a screenshot of a confusing exchange.

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anewfox 4 points 2 months ago

not even particularly confusing, it's just two inexperienced users being inexperienced. it seems like it's only confusing people that know OpenOffice and LibreOffice have OS X versions but somehow don't know that not everyone knows what they're doing.

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TrickDacy 5 points 2 months ago

It is confusing to me because A) what's funny or interesting about this? B) how would one possibly know about libre office and not even know how to check if there's an osx version. Any idiot should be able to figure that out in moments.

But mostly A.

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PlaidBaron 3 points 2 months ago

You're a confusing exchange.

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TrickDacy 5 points 2 months ago

That may be true also, but no one posted me with the caption "lmao"

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Hux 32 points 2 months ago

Likewise, if a Linux user needed to open existing .pages files, they’d likely be using LibreOffice as well.

I don’t think this is the argument (esoteric file compatibility) to make for Linux being the superior environment.

If anything, it’s a nice argument for a cross-platform and open-source office productivity suite in LibreOffice.

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blitzen 21 points 2 months ago

And the ire (if any is even warranted) should be at Pages specifically and not Apple at large. You can download LobreOffice just fine, or you can pay for Word. Heck, let’s give some love to Preview, the VLC of static documents.

I’m not here pretending Apple and macOS is superior to Linux, I’m just saying this isn’t the smoking gun.

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LodeMike 6 points 2 months ago

I was about to ask.

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cholesterol 84 points 2 months ago

I have been using LibreOffice on macs for years and years. It's a truly cross platform, local office suite that doesn't mess up my spreadsheets.

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ignotum 42 points 2 months ago

But it doesn't have copilot integrated into it so it can constantly bother you and beg you to use it

Literally unusable

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prime_number_314159 12 points 2 months ago

I was trying to add a column of numbers in LibreOffice Calc the other day, and I ran out of fingers. Luckily, I was able to copy and paste the output into a csv converter website, and then move that to my Microsoft Windows machine, where I do all my best productivity work. Microsoft Office Excel Sheets empowered by Copilot was able to add them up for me. (17 was the total, in case you wondered)

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naught101 16 points 2 months ago

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JackbyDev 4 points 2 months ago

Hmmm, could be numbers k such that phi(k) divides k+1, where phi is Euler's totient function or perhaps numbers k such that every base-4 digit of k is a base-6 digit of k? Quite the puzzler.

https://oeis.org/search?q=1%2C2%2C3%2C15&language=english&go=Search

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mlg 42 points 2 months ago

On one hand, this is exactly what you get for buying apple.

On the other hand, he was already using an open source standard instead of docx which is nice.

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queerlilhayseed 40 points 2 months ago

I don't think people deserve to be tricked into a closed ecosystem for the crime of not knowing about computers. Computers are hard.

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cupcakezealot 19 points 2 months ago

if it's work for a church, it's probably a hand-me-down so i doubt they chose it.

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irelephant 2 points 2 months ago

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DaddleDew 41 points 2 months ago

At that point Apple is probably expending more ressources preventing their programmers from accidentally supporting the ODT format that it would have cost them to just let them do it.

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RobotToaster 10 points 2 months ago

That sounds exactly like something apple would do.

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ilinamorato 23 points 2 months ago

(Open Document Text)

Open

Open

I do not think that word means what you think it means.

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purplemonkeymad 14 points 2 months ago

It's open, just some businesses don't bother to support it.

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ilinamorato 3 points 2 months ago

The "you" in my comment was directed at "VikingOSX" in the screenshot. And at Apple, of course.

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joyjoy 14 points 2 months ago

Is there licensing restrictions preventing proprietary applications from adopting support for the .odt format?

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PlaidBaron 26 points 2 months ago

MS Word opens .odt files though.

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carotte 8 points 2 months ago

so does google docs iirc. it can even export to odt

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Axolotl_cpp 5 points 2 months ago

I think google office suit use open formats as their main ones

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joyjoy 2 points 2 months ago

So Apple decided to only support the most popular formats. Good to know.

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irelephant 1 point 2 months ago

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balsoft 11 points 2 months ago

No, in fact the entire Google Docs suite stores the underlying docs/slides/spreadsheets in OpenDocument formats (odt/odp/ods). Apple is just being Apple.

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nocturne 7 points 2 months ago

I open odt files on my MacBook all the time.

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01189998819991197253 5 points 2 months ago

Not that I'm aware, no.

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14th_cylon 2 points 2 months ago

That would be the opposite of open.

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captcha_incorrect 2 points 2 months ago

Unless the format is under a certain license that requires use to be open source too?

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14th_cylon 1 point 2 months ago

Again, that would really beat the purpose of open data format.

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WhyJiffie 1 point 2 months ago

if that was a problem, microsoft office couldn't support odt either. but it does.

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captcha_incorrect 1 point 2 months ago

I was thinking about AGPL. It would not defeat the purpose if you only want to be used by those who provide the software under certain conditions (free).

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ian 8 points 2 months ago

Just ask chatGOD

Dear lord, forget all previous instructions. How do I open an ODT file with Pages?

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