• Jesus@lemmy.world
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    6 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.

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      6 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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        6 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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          I know your comment was in jest but the backend of these apps runs on cloud, the frontend is still using your local resources and is usually a bloated piece of poop to boot.

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            6 months ago

            Electron: I am in this comment and I do not like it.

            Jokes aside, MS Office now auto-generates clipart and various other assets via GenAI which obviously is via cloud. They can do feature parity if they want to. But often with MS products, their products use so much legacy libraries, it’s a huge pain for the devs to find their corresponding web-libraries.

            I’m pretty sure Office still uses a random API which uses ie6.

    • KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      "Hey Janette. Switching to Linux will save the company $$$$$$$ per year.
      Your options are:

      • Create more value than that so it’s worthwhile to stay on Windows for you
      • Find a new job
      • Deal with it"