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tombert • today at 12:59 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

Yeah, especially Excel.

LibreOffice Sheets doesn’t compete with Excel 2024, it competes more with Excel 2003. Granted, this is fine for a lot of (most?) people but it’s still not a “replacement” in my mind.

I ended up just building a Nix Flake to properly run Excel. At least then the operating system itself isn’t MS.


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qubex • today at 1:39 PM

I kicked Excel to the kerb in 2005 or something like that and have been a happy Apple Numbers and Wolfram Mathematica (and SPSS, PSPP, and R, and Python) user ever since.

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cirelli94 • today at 2:24 PM

We really need investments from large public institutions in LibreOffice Sheets.

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madjam002 • today at 1:42 PM

What version of Excel does your Nix Flake package out of interest? Is it current?

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