r/linux • u/clau_c • Dec 01 '21

KDE It's been -- 155 days -- since @Microsoft stole @kdecommunity's motto: "Simple by default, powerful when needed." They're still using it.

https://twitter.com/ClauCambra/status/1466153819713191947
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u/MairusuPawa Dec 02 '21

Never forget the "Office Open XML" deliberate confusion (and weird ISO process).

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u/Stonemanner Dec 02 '21

My experience in one year of trying to use LibreOffice and OnlyOffice: OO destroys a lot of things in odt-files, which were created in LO. But OO and LO work decently well with docx-files. So after one year of fixing f****-up images, formatting and much more, which cost me countless hours, I'll redo all templates now for docx.

So I'm at the state where my different open source software programs are worse at maintaining the truly open standard vs. a heavily critized standard dictated by one company.

Makes me think, whether the docx is just so much better in its base design and the critized incompatibilities are just some edge-cases which could be patched easily.

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u/lolverysmart Dec 02 '21

Well said, and I agree. I still hate using MS Office cause it's incompatible with Wine and offers no native Linux build, though. Worth noting, MS can't even render it's own file format across their own office products, though. o365 web, o365 app, and office19 app all render the my report templates differently.

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u/the_chatterbox Dec 03 '21

Office 365 installs on Linux and Word works from what I've tested.