I get that it’s open source provided you use codium not code but I still find that interesting

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    1 year ago

    Ok but most people only use very basic features of Excel and would be fine with a version from the early 2000’s. The spreadsheet market has caught up and they’d be fine with basically any product at this point. The only thing propping up Microsoft Office is the subtle incompatibilities they’ve slipped into their file formats, that people don’t want to deal with. That and the fact most people get to use their Office free one way or another, and “it’s what I’m used to”.

    I don’t think I’ve touched actual desktop Office in more than a decade now. Even in a corporate environment it’s mostly their online version that gets used 90% of time by 90% of people.

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      Everybody needs just a small subset of that excel does, but everybody needs a different subset.

      If you do not have all the features, most of your users will be missing something that is critical to their use case.

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        1 year ago

        That may be but it doesn’t mean those subsets put together amount to more than just basic functionality.

        What basic functionality does Excel have that can’t you can’t find in other spreadsheet products?