alt Hacker NewsThere are so many better alternatives but it seems many people really like Word for some weird reason. The last time I cared I had to look up how to make a document starting the page numbering on the 2nd page. It turns out there are totally different ways between different versions of Word. shrug.jpg
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IshKebab • yesterday at 5:48 PM
What are the "so many better alternatives"? Google Docs is pretty decent but a fair bit more basic. Proper technical authoring systems like Typst, LyX and LaTeX are way too hard for the average person. LibreOffice is much worse than MS Word.
Such as? Word hits the sweet spot of having support for all the complexity the average person may encounter/want to create.
Libre, Apple Pages, and Google Docs all seem like clearly worse tools in most aspects in my experience.
LaTeX is extremely powerful, but also way too complicated for the average non-HN person/person who doesn't live in complicated documents.