• Jesus@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Janette in finance is going to murder whoever tries to give her a FOSS alternative to Excel or forces her to fuck with a VM or web Excel.

    We remember the last IT admin that tried to do a platform swap on her. RIP Patrick.

    • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 months ago

      I think the most infuriating part about web Excel and desktop Excel is that they don’t have feature parity.

      There’s stuff that works on desktop but not web and it’s really frustrating.

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        3 months ago

        Don’t you know? Some calculations can only be done locally. They are too complicated to be performed over the cloud. It needs to be done on your i3/4GB RAM PC.

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      3 months ago

      As someone who uses Excel on Windows and Calc on Linux, I can totally understand. There are some big differences so there’s a valid reason for sticking with Excel. Casual users won’t notice anything big, but advanced users will.

      On the other hand, if you’re an advanced Excel user, it usually means you’re trying to make it do stuff that it isn’t very good at. If you want stuff that Calc can’t provide, it’s a clear sign you should have written that calculation in R or Python a long time ago.