LibreOffice 26.8 became the app’s most popular update, with over 1 million downloads, after the foundation behind it declared that LibreOffice doesn’t come with generative AI features due to the…
The spreadsheets seem to run better, at least on initial glance.
I kinda think that’s the most important thing. Excel is the only service Microsoft provides that’s decent. A proper replacement for that is how you get more people and organizations on open source systems.
Microsoft also makes SQL Server, Azure, and .NET which are all pretty big too. I’m not knowledgeable enough to evaluate them but I think they are at least decent
No idea about KNIME personally. I find there’s real value in having the Swiss army knife of Excel that every office worker has access to be able to do really in-depth and multi-step transformations without needing access to a scripting language and package manager. Normally corporate IT are a little cagey handing out access to Python to a random admin staff member, but we all have and can share Excel stuff no problem.
Actually, expanding on that, LibreOffice needs both a book like OpenOffice.org Macros explained, but for Python and a grumpy guru like Villeroy, but on the pythonic side of the fence.
The spreadsheets seem to run better, at least on initial glance.
I kinda think that’s the most important thing. Excel is the only service Microsoft provides that’s decent. A proper replacement for that is how you get more people and organizations on open source systems.
Microsoft also makes SQL Server, Azure, and .NET which are all pretty big too. I’m not knowledgeable enough to evaluate them but I think they are at least decent
Excel + PowerBI (query?) is too powerful.
Maybe some LibreOffice + KNime integration + Easier Python macroing would be THE killer feature coming from a FOSS office suite.
Power Query just trivialises so many once annoying tasks I can’t imagine going back to “just a spreadsheet”
I agree. Do you know KNIME? It does a lot of the same transformations. But something like DAX has to be provided by Python.
Knime + Duckdb is so good
No idea about KNIME personally. I find there’s real value in having the Swiss army knife of Excel that every office worker has access to be able to do really in-depth and multi-step transformations without needing access to a scripting language and package manager. Normally corporate IT are a little cagey handing out access to Python to a random admin staff member, but we all have and can share Excel stuff no problem.
Actually, expanding on that, LibreOffice needs both a book like OpenOffice.org Macros explained, but for Python and a grumpy guru like Villeroy, but on the pythonic side of the fence.