#*derail. fuck you auto correct.

[and-stir-the-stars]

very bold of dean to exist

#i say bold. i mean annoying and infuriating to me personally. #anti dean winchester #anti dean #actually.going to deal my own post and say people who don't tag their ships are very bold #*derail. fuck you auto correct. #the amount of urls/random tags or key words that are specific to one single post #that i have blocked so i don't have to see untagged des.tiel content is truly staggering #i literally have to add at least one per week and it's just exhausting #i've had to add three more in the past hour and a half that i've been online btw. thats why i'm so pissed.

[feyariel]

Okay, I should have derailed that LibreOffice thread I shared instead of talking in tags.

I HATE LibreOffice.

LibreOffice takes forever to load. For. Ever. For no reason.

It refuses to spellcheck. I have followed every tutorial and made sure everything I could find was good. It can't catch errors. This is troublesome because 1.) as a proofreader, 98% of my use of the program is preparing my list of corrections (which I've copied from Notepad for reasons), so the fact that it will not recognize spelling mistakes I've noted is telling, and 2.) this is an extremely basic function of the program, so leads me to wonder what else it can't do well...

...like use formulae. In both Writer and Calc, formulae will not auto-update if you alter a component. It will instead display an error message and force you to redo the entire formula.

Most things that are simple to do in Office (drag and drop cells in Excel, select ranges of cells by typing cell labels, adjust tabs and indents, fiddle with options in menus) are implemented poorly in LibreOffice, being either convoluted, needlessly backwards, hidden (either just outright or due to poor organization), or non-existent.

Astoundingly, the web community is no better. I've dug through tutorial after tutorial after tutorial. Tasks which should be simple often turn out to have bizarre keybinds you wouldn't think they'd have. More complicated issues will get answered with allusions to completely different menus.

Finally, LibreOffice has a nasty habit of crashing and causing other programs to crash with it. It's not constant, but it's often enough that the pattern has emerged. Fortunately, it autosaves any documents you had open and restores them to (as far as I have noticed) exactly how they were upon the crash.

I say all of this having used several other word processors and spreadsheets -- some open source, some not -- and recognize that they have to implement things differently lest Microsoft sue them. Many drop features entirely as a result. But this is the first I've run into that is so bad it makes me want to buy Office -- not just pirate, but fork over the cash I don't have to an evil tech company so that I can use software I know fucking works. I've played the "avoid Microsoft" game before; while Word and Excel have almost always in the end been better than whatever else I'm using, it's never been as dramatic a difference as it is with LibreOffice Writer and Calc.

Like, sure, I don't want to support an evil corporation, but sometimes you should buy the better product.

But hey, it came with the computer, it's free, and the most basic functions (type and save) work.