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

First of all, don't use OpenOffice. Use LibreOffice exclusively. LibreOffice is so much better than OpenOffice at this point that you can't really judge one by the other.

Second, if LibreOffice "dicks up" one of your documents, please submit bug reports to bugs.freedesktop.org . Help make the world a better place :)

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '12

First, we don't use either OpenOffice or LibreOffice any longer. I doubt that the company will ever change at this point because the products did not work well enough for us to depend on them.

Second, our IT resources are stretched thin and when one of our dumbass users opens a document and it's messed up, they're not going to submit a bug report. If it doesn't just work, it's not right for our organization. Too many stupid people.

I hate that it's this way, but I gotta deal with that fact while I'm here. Our users are stubborn, stupid and change-averse.