Obviously most people that work in offices use these at work. But do you ever use them at home, in your personal life?
I use libreoffice calc very rarely for tabular data like csv and convert docx to txt using libreoffice writer.
>>108974156No, not really. But since I have them on my puter anyway if I ever find a need for them I'll probably just use these instead of installing a second office tool pack just for the sake of not using one made by MS
i use sc but I could easily be using gnumeric or libreoffice calc, it's just some piss basic shit if you're self-employed and need to calculate total receipts vs business expenses.you wouldn't use anything else unless you're a student, writers tend to prefer plaintext.
I use WPS. Can't even feel the difference.
>>108974156No, because they are not open source.
>>108974156basically not at all. only Word for the rare occasion. installing and activating office is childsplay now thanks to the massgrave website. might as well have it on standby when needed.
>>108974790>might as well have it on standby when needed.other than the click to run bloat it constantly runs in the background
>>108974795true but not in my case. and even when it did i can disable the services and plug the whole thing with firewall. obviously i use iot enterprise and an office enterprise iso too. its all far less cucked than the home editions. so apart from the few gb's of storage it doesnt get in the way
I use Microsoft works word processor on my ancient windows vista laptop
>>108974156pretty much only Excel
>>108974156Everyone i know uses google docs/spreadsheets
>>108974746Chinese spyware. Upgrade to open source Russian software, OnlyOffice.
>>108975123No serious spreadsheet user is using google docs. Microsoft are ruining Excel these day though, by force feeding Copilot integration and raising prices.
>>108974156Only for passwords and keeping track of my precious metals
>>108975271>now driven by AI-powered virtual assistants and smart agentsI'm good.
LibreOffice does everything I need for home use and I don't have to pay a subscription fee
Nope. I started using spreadsheets to store my game's dialogue so I can load it in an organized way, but I didn't even use the microshit programs, the libreoffice version is more than enough.
>>108974156nope, only libreoffice and google's web-based dogshit
>>108974156Yeah, honestly, I use them way more in my personal life than I expected.At work, the use case is obvious: writing emails, summarizing notes, organizing ideas, debugging, making spreadsheets less painful, that kind of thing. But at home, they’re useful in a different way. It’s less “do my job for me” and more “help me think through the annoying little stuff I would normally procrastinate on.”I’ll use them to plan meals, compare products, rewrite a text so it sounds less awkward, figure out how to word something politely, troubleshoot a home issue, organize a trip, summarize a long article, brainstorm gift ideas, make a checklist, or even just talk through a decision when I’m not sure what I think yet.The biggest thing is that it lowers the friction of everyday life. A lot of small tasks aren’t hard, they’re just mentally annoying. Having something that can instantly give you a starting point, clean up your wording, or help you sort your thoughts is genuinely useful outside of work too.So yeah, I think office use is just the most obvious version of it. The personal-life use is where it starts feeling less like a “work tool” and more like a general-purpose assistant.
>>108974156There literally is no reason to use office apps unless you are a wagie 9-5 loser and cannot make your own bread, make sure not to forget to set a calendar reminder so everyone knows you are on your annual 2 week vacation after you ask another adult for permission to go on a vacation.Excel can be useful though I use all the time, but, Apple's free Numbers is just as good for vast majority of things. You won't be doing anything exotic what finance bro's do, so you might as well use libre/apple free office apps.
>>108974156>But do you ever use them at home, in your personal life?All the time. What else am I gonna use to type up a document or work on a spreadsheet. Office ltsc is usually one of the first things I install on a fresh windows install
>>108975517>type up a documentyour favorite text editor (ideally one with builtin PDF preview) and Typst
texmacs is really good for creating beatiful pdfs.
>>108974156>But do you ever use them at home, in your personal life?I'd rather not use computers at all than deal with microshit during my private time.I have to use Microshit Office at my day job (even though the company works mainly with Mac and Linux).But I keep Microsoft, and specially Office and Windows, away from home, hobby and side gig as much as possible. The only microsoft product I used was VSCode until recently but since Zed has become good enough I ditched that too. Technically I also use Github (although my own repos are on Gitlab).
>>108974156I use them to make resumes and personal budgets, but that's about it.The depressing thing is that 99% of users AT WORK don't use the baked in scripting language the MS Office suite comes with. Instead, they -1000x themselves by manually doing grunt work, even in the age of AI.
>>108976041last I checked Word and the gang will have all kinds of alarms go off if you open a document with macros in it because it might have a virusIs that not the case anymore?
>>108975316Optional, but remember, you cannot escape the AI god.
>>108976150Only if an unverified 3rd-party wrote it. If you wrote/pasted it, or a trusted author wrote it, then no warnings. Scripts can be cryptographically signed and verified to come from authors/keys you add to a trusted list.
No. I hope everyone who built Excel will havw their lives ruined. I hate Excel.
>>108974156I use emacs and other shit at home. I get enough microgay at work already.
This stupid icon is just constantly there in excel now, thanks
>>108976201Clippy what happened to you
The last MS office I used at home was 2000. After that I switched to Star Office.
>>108976201Because the >physical laptop key>right click menu button>start bar button>ribbon button>random popups demanding you use itweren't enough. They need to literally cover part of the actual working space with yet another button.
>>108975469this reads like an llm post on rebbit. this has little do with ms office specifically, just Ai in general
>>108974156Have never actually needed to, because I started using alternative productivity suites, word processors, presentation managers, and spreadsheet editors when I was still a Winshitter back in 2001. Both proprietary and FOSS. MS Office is fucking intolerable. All of the full-featured alternatives are orders of magnitude more usable.
>>108976201use it to tell you how to remove it>protip: its in the File>Account settings
