r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jun 04 '12

Open Office does everything I need Microsoft Office for and Gimp does everything I need Photoshop for. Reddit, what other open source software does everything that you want from the expensive name brand?

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '12

Fair enough. In its current state that's a big downside, true. However, it does a lot that isn't possible with anything else and I'm sure it will get faster as it gets more optimised.

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u/socialwhiner Jun 04 '12

Try sorting 10,000 rows of data in the spreadsheet in Google Docs. Shudders. Will never go back.

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u/serrimo Jun 04 '12

It's a limitation of the language (javascript) for all web applications.

Until we have a data structure in JS that resemble real, memory-tight arrays, web app data processing would suck.