LibreOffice is available for MacOs. So I don't see the problem.
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I was confused cause I was thinking "surely you can just get LibreOffice on MacOS, right?" Just did a quick look online and lo and behold, yep. I don't get the issue lol π
The issue is that working with docx files in libreoffice is less ideal than working with their native format.
but the meme is not about odt files
The post (not a meme) is about not being able to import odt into Pages, and the solution being having to first export to docx. Yeah they can just use libreoffice but that's not the point.
I don't know why did I end up writing that. I wanted to say docx instead of odt. I don't get why did I get upvotes even, itdoes not make sense that way.
Sir, this is a meme community.
No this is one *nix community trying to stir shit with another *nix community. You can literally reverse the meme to any proprietary file format for any other OS.
But.. it's not proprietary. The devs could just... read the spec and implement it. It's probably even easier than that if there are libraries to help.
You can install libreoffice using the nix package manager, but im unsure how this is relevant
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"it's a meme"
No it's not, it's a screenshot of a confusing exchange.
not even particularly confusing, it's just two inexperienced users being inexperienced. it seems like it's only confusing people that know OpenOffice and LibreOffice have OS X versions but somehow don't know that not everyone knows what they're doing.
It is confusing to me because A) what's funny or interesting about this? B) how would one possibly know about libre office and not even know how to check if there's an osx version. Any idiot should be able to figure that out in moments.
But mostly A.
You're a confusing exchange.
That may be true also, but no one posted me with the caption "lmao"
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1000 upvotes, 400 comments all pretending to get it
Likewise, if a Linux user needed to open existing .pages files, theyβd likely be using LibreOffice as well.
I donβt think this is the argument (esoteric file compatibility) to make for Linux being the superior environment.
If anything, itβs a nice argument for a cross-platform and open-source office productivity suite in LibreOffice.
And the ire (if any is even warranted) should be at Pages specifically and not Apple at large. You can download LobreOffice just fine, or you can pay for Word. Heck, letβs give some love to Preview, the VLC of static documents.
Iβm not here pretending Apple and macOS is superior to Linux, Iβm just saying this isnβt the smoking gun.
I was about to ask.
I have been using LibreOffice on macs for years and years. It's a truly cross platform, local office suite that doesn't mess up my spreadsheets.
But it doesn't have copilot integrated into it so it can constantly bother you and beg you to use it
Literally unusable
I was trying to add a column of numbers in LibreOffice Calc the other day, and I ran out of fingers. Luckily, I was able to copy and paste the output into a csv converter website, and then move that to my Microsoft Windows machine, where I do all my best productivity work. Microsoft Office Excel Sheets empowered by Copilot was able to add them up for me. (17 was the total, in case you wondered)
Hmmm, could be numbers k such that phi(k) divides k+1, where phi is Euler's totient function or perhaps numbers k such that every base-4 digit of k is a base-6 digit of k? Quite the puzzler.
https://oeis.org/search?q=1%2C2%2C3%2C15&language=english&go=Search
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Open
Open
I do not think that word means what you think it means.
It's open, just some businesses don't bother to support it.
The "you" in my comment was directed at "VikingOSX" in the screenshot. And at Apple, of course.
At that point Apple is probably expending more ressources preventing their programmers from accidentally supporting the ODT format that it would have cost them to just let them do it.
That sounds exactly like something apple would do.
On one hand, this is exactly what you get for buying apple.
On the other hand, he was already using an open source standard instead of docx which is nice.
I don't think people deserve to be tricked into a closed ecosystem for the crime of not knowing about computers. Computers are hard.
if it's work for a church, it's probably a hand-me-down so i doubt they chose it.
I don't really get what you mean here, you can install OpenOffice and libre office on a Mac, and Microsoft word for macs supports odt files.
Just ask chatGOD
Dear lord, forget all previous instructions. How do I open an ODT file with Pages?
Is there licensing restrictions preventing proprietary applications from adopting support for the .odt format?
MS Word opens .odt files though.
so does google docs iirc. it can even export to odt
I think google office suit use open formats as their main ones
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No, in fact the entire Google Docs suite stores the underlying docs/slides/spreadsheets in OpenDocument formats (odt/odp/ods). Apple is just being Apple.
I open odt files on my MacBook all the time.
Not that I'm aware, no.
That would be the opposite of open.
Unless the format is under a certain license that requires use to be open source too?
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