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    Wine being great (lemmy.ml)
    submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/linuxmemes
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    [–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

    The (libre) office suite is geared towards business and school stuff, they are far from perfect but does 90% of what people need.

    Word/LibreOffice Writer

    Have their uses, just keep the document below like 50 pages.
    LaTeX is great for academic papers and when you need the document to look crisp!
    And you are right about Markdown it's great for many documents.

    Excel/Calc

    Spreadsheets are great for data entry and some calculations especially financial stuff. You can't do that as easily inside a source file.

    PowerPoint, you are probably right about beamer?

    Access

    Utter garbage "database" maybe if you need something to keep your record collection? If you know the basics of relational databases and a bit of SQL any proper DB is soo much better.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

    So, regarding md & beamer: I'm kinda into that "less is more" mindset when it comes to every day -ish writing. Like yeah, you can spend a few hrs formatting the info a certain way, but if that's not a typography thingy - who's really going to care how the stuff is aligned or whether it's divided into 100500 columns?

    Md has just enough features to structure the text, and when you need to share, you just compile the doc into PDF which is at least supposed to look the same everywhere. Basically the same for beamer, although you can shove animations in there (right, cause why tf shouldn't PDF support animations after all)

    Rant over 🤣