Perhaps you work for geek squad, or at USPS, or a mill.
You won’t get it until you’ve been working at big companies that use Excel extensively. Shifting priorities, support people to support the products they’re using, skeleton crew for IT staff, a support lifeline if needed, etc. Or you haven’t met many managers of said orgs…
It’s not about what’s better. It’s about what’s familiar and what translates well. Pets say a law firm receives an excel file with all kinds of shit done to it (macros and other excel things), and nobody can open it because they all use Excel. And like I t or not, it is presently the dominant product so you are going to run into less issues using it, unfortunately.
I was using LibreOffice Calc on my work PC with a Threadripper CPU, and somehow it still chugs at times. Scrolling was very laggy with larger spreadsheets for example. I ended up using Google Sheets instead, which is way more responsive for me. If it was for personal use, I’d probably try IronCalc.
Why would anyone use that garbage over Libre Office?
Because businesses have been using it for decades, they have old spreadsheets with all kinds of functions and shit that may not easily port over, etc.
The unfortunate reality.
Who cares? Still doesnt explain it. Libre Office is way better
Perhaps you work for geek squad, or at USPS, or a mill.
You won’t get it until you’ve been working at big companies that use Excel extensively. Shifting priorities, support people to support the products they’re using, skeleton crew for IT staff, a support lifeline if needed, etc. Or you haven’t met many managers of said orgs…
It’s not about what’s better. It’s about what’s familiar and what translates well. Pets say a law firm receives an excel file with all kinds of shit done to it (macros and other excel things), and nobody can open it because they all use Excel. And like I t or not, it is presently the dominant product so you are going to run into less issues using it, unfortunately.
I was using LibreOffice Calc on my work PC with a Threadripper CPU, and somehow it still chugs at times. Scrolling was very laggy with larger spreadsheets for example. I ended up using Google Sheets instead, which is way more responsive for me. If it was for personal use, I’d probably try IronCalc.
How does gnumeric work for you? That’s my spreadsheet goto, but to be fair I have very simple demands.
I’ll try it out! I totally forgot it exists.
For business, they need Excel.
I love Libreoffice but the dictionary on there is abysmal. Like fully wretched.
I’m sure there’s a way to add others but I just haven’t discovered it yet.
Anyone who needs to do something serious