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 😂
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.
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.
LibreOffice is available for MacOs. So I don’t see the problem.
I was about to ask.
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 😂
The issue is that working with docx files in libreoffice is less ideal than working with their native format.
Sir, this is a meme community.
The meme isn’t very good though
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.
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.
Sir, this is a meme community.
I’m going to need to see some ID son
ODT?
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.
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.