• Nindelofocho@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Whats the best replacement for Excel? LibreCalc is ok but it lags really far behind Excel in intermediate features. My close friend in analytics switched back to Excel recently because he got so tired of dealing with LibreCalc.

    Also do you know if the Affinity suite works well in Wine? Ive messed with a lot of software paid and libre for its purposes but just vibe with Affinity best

    Im not asking to sound rude im asking because im genuinely looking down the barrel of this OS change and I do a lot of computer based hobbies and work that are going to be uprooted by this

    • umbrella@lemmy.ml
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      4 months ago

      both affinity and photoshop run well on wine for me. there are native tools like krita that work well for less complex use cases.

      as for office i use some basic macros and calculations and libreoffice works for me, but there are many choices that may or may not work for your friend.

      admittedly, software discovery on linux is awful. the app store isnt that good on some distros and theres basically no promotion.

    • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 months ago

      best replacement for Excel

      I’ve never met a google sheet that couldn’t do what excel did unless excel was being made to do shit it really isn’t ideal for

      Yeah it’s another Corp, but you don’t have to pay and you can simultaneously edit the file on 80 devices at the same time if you want