Re: 5 Stand-Out LibreOffice Features That Make It My Go-To Office Suite

On 2024-10-19, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

Le 2024-10-19 à 02 h 20, RonB a écrit :

On 2024-10-18, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Fri, 18 Oct 2024 07:04:43 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
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Gnome, in general, has suffered from the "change for change sake" issue.
But they're the exception, not the rule.

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I use it but my preference is KDE. Even with going to Wayland it hasn't
taken too many weird detours.

 
Even on Fedora I use Cinnamon. On the HP, which is running KDE Neon, I can
try out KDE. I could probably get used to it, but I don't see any advantage
over Cinnamon. Again, Mate and Cinnamon are all I've been using (regularly)
for about 16 years now, so I know them pretty well.

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The advantage of KDE, for me, is in its customization. Unlike Gnome at
least, changing the icons, cursors or window decorations is rather easy.
Cinnamon does it well, but it's not as easy as it is in KDE. Also, the
themes in Cinnamon all look pretty much the same whereas in KDE, you can
make your desktop look radically different than your neighbour's.
Additionally, widgets in KDE actually work as they should.
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There are also effects which often end up being a selling point for new
users. The included effects are rather nice, but you can even download
new ones that truly make your desktop feel different. To give you an
example, my windows minimize the way they did in the early versions of
Mac OS X (magic lamp) and I set up the opening and closing of windows to
use a hexagon effect which is similar to what you would see in movies.
It's all useless and does nothing to "improve productivity and click
reduction" or whatver that faggot used to say, but it freaks the kids
out when I share my screen in class.

I consider most of those special effects to be "gimmicks" and, if I did play
around with them in the past, it was years ago and it no longer interests me
— never really interested me much even in the past. But I get your point. On
Reddit I see people often bragging about what their Linux Mint Desktop looks
like when they've customized it pretty heavily. I'm happy for them, but I
really don't have much interest in doing that. My customizations are usually
done to make the desktop work and look the same as it always did. So kind of
the opposite of what the new users are doing.

I guess I'm "stodgy" and set in my ways.

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