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Which proprietary software do you prefer over their open-source alternatives, and why? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by mayflower@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] msage@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

My sister-in-law sent her bachelor thesis, edited in i-dont-know-which version, but in 365 was utterly misaligned. It was barely ok in 2007. It took some trial and error to see it in the same way she was.

[–] thereisalamp@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Weird. We pass word documents back and forth all day and formatting is no problem. Even Adobe pdf to year conversions come out fine across the board.

[–] msage@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was just as suprised, as I was expecting it to work flawlessly on Windows Word, regardless of the version.

In any case, I will use sqlite before opening Excel. But usually Postgres.

[–] thereisalamp@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

Fair enough.

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