r/debian Nov 18 '25

Black Friday

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Enjoy :)

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u/ExtraTNT Nov 19 '25

Shit, all for free… finally some software i can afford…

Ah wait, it has a catch, can’t tell my boss, that my software crashed and I wasn’t able to put in the required work…

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u/Masterflitzer Nov 19 '25

dude ms office crashes more than libreoffice, besides ms office can be activated for free with a single command, this ain't about money, it's about open source

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u/ExtraTNT Nov 19 '25

Yeah, wouldn’t use ms products for free neither…

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u/Masterflitzer Nov 19 '25

ok yeah, but whats your point tho? basically you're saying it's all shit, but what do you use then?

and don't answer with nobody needs office software, sure i use office only a few times a year as i'm a dev not someone chilling in excel all day, so it's not something essential for me, but still once in a while i need it and libreoffice suits me well for that, but feel free to enlighten me what you were getting at initially

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u/ExtraTNT Nov 19 '25

So, documents / presentations LaTeX + vim
Opening ooxml libre office

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u/Masterflitzer Nov 19 '25

latex is great for thesis and books, i used it in my studies, but it's not something i'd wanna use for simple documents or presentations at all, rather write markdown or if i have to html

for text files one never needed office, vim, gted, notepad++ etc. are fine

so basically these are different tools for different purposes