I try it but it doesn’t feel good. It feels like a clone of Office 2004.
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I just installed it, open an xlsx file, it opens to the document explorer panel not my document.
Okay, weird, where’s my file? Open it again.
It’s your first time here, customize the app! Here are 5 different UI paradigms to choose from. Okay, I guess compact?
Don’t forget the theme! Sure, okay, use automatic theme and default 2004 style icons.
LibreOffice needs to restart to apply settings. I watched it dynamically update in the background, but okay.
Restarts Tip of the day: you can change your appearance settings! Run this action now? No. Why? Close.
Okay, I spent all that time customizing my tab bar, and yet, Calc doesn’t use a tab bar, so there’s no change at all after all that? No idea if that’s a macOS thing or not because it puts the toolbar values in the menu bar.
Okay, well let’s make a pivot table. Seems decent, it’s a clean Excel clone here, decent functionality. Needs a count distinct and some custom aggregations.
What’s this “Data” field though? Drag it to first slot: LibreOffice hard crashes. At least it saved my document.
Reopen file, let’s zoom out. Click and drag zoom slider, it creates a glitched rectangle around the active cell that tears vs rest of screen that doesn’t always update. It looks like the full page only zooms on certain values while deagging, but on release that sticks.
Let’s make a chart. Select 3 items plus total in my pivot. Click chart button. 3 bars in the chart, where my total bar? Data field is blocked out on pivot take charts. Change chart type, wait 3 seconds for a re render. Try to move the chart but have to click off first.
Okay, let’s delete the chart now. Press delete button: “This function cannot be completed on the selected objects”. Huh? Oh I have to click off, then select the chart again, then delete it.
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That was my 10 minute experiment. It feels just as bad in a web browser. The Skia renderer is so much better than the old system, but like, I found all this crap in 10 minutes.
I really want this to be good, but it needs a critical editor to go through it with a fine toothed comb. Honestly, they should crib Google Sheets, since it’s got a better interface than Excel now.
Ima be honest, I use it like all the time and I’ve never had a problem with it. Especially to the degree that you’re saying you had in just 10 min.
If youre fluent with Office tools then you should be able to use it.
The only single thing I noticed explicitly that bugged me was it not opening template files as a new file so if I saved it would save over the template.
You can argue that the math editor kind of sucks, which fair, if I was doing a discrete mathematics paper I’d be doing it in LaTeX which has like decades of modules and academia behind it
Is it though?
I try it but it doesn’t feel good. It feels like a clone of Office 2004.
—
I just installed it, open an xlsx file, it opens to the document explorer panel not my document.
Okay, weird, where’s my file? Open it again.
It’s your first time here, customize the app! Here are 5 different UI paradigms to choose from. Okay, I guess compact?
Don’t forget the theme! Sure, okay, use automatic theme and default 2004 style icons.
LibreOffice needs to restart to apply settings. I watched it dynamically update in the background, but okay.
Restarts Tip of the day: you can change your appearance settings! Run this action now? No. Why? Close.
Okay, I spent all that time customizing my tab bar, and yet, Calc doesn’t use a tab bar, so there’s no change at all after all that? No idea if that’s a macOS thing or not because it puts the toolbar values in the menu bar.
Okay, well let’s make a pivot table. Seems decent, it’s a clean Excel clone here, decent functionality. Needs a count distinct and some custom aggregations.
What’s this “Data” field though? Drag it to first slot: LibreOffice hard crashes. At least it saved my document.
Reopen file, let’s zoom out. Click and drag zoom slider, it creates a glitched rectangle around the active cell that tears vs rest of screen that doesn’t always update. It looks like the full page only zooms on certain values while deagging, but on release that sticks.
Let’s make a chart. Select 3 items plus total in my pivot. Click chart button. 3 bars in the chart, where my total bar? Data field is blocked out on pivot take charts. Change chart type, wait 3 seconds for a re render. Try to move the chart but have to click off first.
Okay, let’s delete the chart now. Press delete button: “This function cannot be completed on the selected objects”. Huh? Oh I have to click off, then select the chart again, then delete it.
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That was my 10 minute experiment. It feels just as bad in a web browser. The Skia renderer is so much better than the old system, but like, I found all this crap in 10 minutes.
I really want this to be good, but it needs a critical editor to go through it with a fine toothed comb. Honestly, they should crib Google Sheets, since it’s got a better interface than Excel now.
Ima be honest, I use it like all the time and I’ve never had a problem with it. Especially to the degree that you’re saying you had in just 10 min.
If youre fluent with Office tools then you should be able to use it.
The only single thing I noticed explicitly that bugged me was it not opening template files as a new file so if I saved it would save over the template.
You can argue that the math editor kind of sucks, which fair, if I was doing a discrete mathematics paper I’d be doing it in LaTeX which has like decades of modules and academia behind it