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What's a service you’ve been using forever that hasn’t enshitified? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Davy_Jones@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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We all know the struggle of beloved services slowly going downhill. What’s one service, tool, or website you’ve been using for years that’s still great and hasn’t turned to crap?

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[–] BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Open Office? It hasn't been touched in a decade. LibreOffice is the true continuation of Open Office, which was forked off after Oracle bought Sun and OO had been left with poor governance and slow updates.

Open Office finally ended up under the Apache foundation but hasn't been maintained since 2014.

LibreOffice has had continual development with both bug fixes and new features, and the Open Document Foundation gives it good governance and independence as an open source project..

Honestly, switch to Libre Office.

[–] doortodeath@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks for the heads-up. Got both on my pc but i instinctively open up OO when i need to do writing. Will give Libre another chance now :)

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

honestly I assume when someone says open office they mean libre office.

[–] IlmariGanander@lemmy.wtf 1 points 1 week ago

I've tried so many times to switch to LibreOffice, but as far as I can tell it's just not made for novelists. It regularly shits itself when dealing with a 300k manuscript that Word has never given me problems with.

I genuinely tried using it for a full year, using it on Linux even, to see if it was just me being cranky about changes to my writing routine...and maybe it's still just me, but I eventually went back to Windows and my old copy of Microsoft Word 2010.

As far as I can tell, using Libre Office (or Open Office) as an actual writer seems to be a niche enough use case that developers don't fix some of the issues that crop up that are specific to the needs of a novelist. It also gets laggy and unreliable for long word counts.

But if you need to make a basic sign to be printed out, or letters, or use it for short things like so many people use Word for in an office setting, it probably is ok.

I just had trouble with it behaving poorly with my long-format works in ways that MS Word never crapped out on me for.