Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice

Posted Jun 5, 2023 3:15 UTC (Mon) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582)
In reply to: Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice by marcH
Parent article: Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice

Actually all of this is a pointless discussion

autosync doesn't hurt; if you don't like it, ignore it
a named version gives you a snapshot of a file at a certain point, same as saving it would do, except you can have multiple historical named snapshots, while saving overwrites your old versions
and you can download a local copy whenever you want

I think the only real issue with google docs is the requirement to be online most of the time. If you are typing when offline, and are unable to get online before your laptop battery dies, you are likely to lose work.

Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice

Posted Jun 5, 2023 4:16 UTC (Mon) by smurf (subscriber, #17840) [Link] (1 responses)

Yeah, very nice that something like this now works, given a multi-MBit/sec network link – and some hefty CPUs in some data center, which y'all finance by staring at ads and/or giving up your privacy and/or living off other people who do that.

I'm very happy to live in a world in which distros exist whose target users explicitly include people who don't have the former and/or don't want to do the latter.

Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice

Posted Jun 5, 2023 4:41 UTC (Mon) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]

So the discussion was already mixing up auto-save with cloud storage. They interact with each other yet they're different topics.

Thanks for adding another, third, unrelated and non-technical topic: who pays for the cloud and how.

PS: Google Workspace and Office365 are primarily targeted at businesses. None involves any advertisement in that case.