Post #2456379

2026-04-22 14:24 UTC

@cockneylaurie@mastodonapp.uk I haven't used Libreoffice for a while but I always felt an uncanny-valley-type-feeling: it's kind of almost the same as Word but not quite, and the 'not quite' things are subtle and uncomfortable. But I did write several years' worth of essays with it, and it's perfectly capable. But I miss WordPerfect... (oh and don't get me started on GIMP)

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@cockneylaurie@mastodonapp.uk 2026-04-22 15:36

@flup@mastodon.scot Yes I love many features of LibreOffice, it's just that particular feature missing that annoys me... As to Gimp, well again there are features that I liked in a simple thing like Paint Shop Pro 20 years ago that are still not there... Or that are stupidly difficult. The issue I think is that often the folk writing the software are so skilled, (and the software so complex), that they find these things simple whereas a tinkerer like me with a little knowledge cannot find them or find they are obscured by functions I'd never use. (Or using specialist terminology I don't understand in the case of Gimp) So I often end up "googling" how to do stuff. (And then half the replies are nice and helpful, and the other half from folk dismissive with a feeling like "anyone knows that" - that from people you know probably wouldn't know how to place an LP on a platter, or dial a number on a dial phone!)

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