Creator of free Adobe clones unveils open-source Microsoft Office Excel, PowerPoint, and Word replications — Autodesk tools and other subscription-based services may come next

2 days ago by Substance_P to c/opensource

It's a protest now.

Brandon Thomas, developer of ArtCraft, a suite of open-source creative tools meant to replicate Adobe applications for free, has now announced apps to replace Microsoft Office tools such as Excel, PowerPoint, and Word, respectively, named GridCraft, DeckCraft, and WordCraft, that are created with Claude. Thomas has shared his new clones to ArtCraft GitHub, making them free for all to download.

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87Six 1 point a day ago

Has anyone actualy tried this slop stuff? Does it even work?

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tc4m 5 points a day ago

Tried the PowerPoint clone. Opened our corporate template and hit present. Presentation mode runs sluggish as hell. OnlyOffice is way smoother by comparison.

Uninstalled it right away.

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moldy_rice 3 points a day ago

Narrator: uninstall didn't fully work, and he's now infected forever

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tc4m 1 point 3 hours ago

Eh, it's the work laptop. It's an Ubuntu machine, so it feels kinda wonky and bad right after install anyway.

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87Six 0 points a day ago