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Official vs FOSS software?
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As someone who's been in the workforce for more than a decade, the one thing I wouldn't bother with FOSS is Office.
I know it's probably MS's fault, but at the end of the day I'm just trying to send this boring document to this boring colleague and get on with my day. Last thing I want is for them to come back with boring complaints cause something went a bit wrong with conversion.
You know what's funny? Microsoft adopted the OpenDocument format. A .docx file is simply zip-compressed XML. So it's not that open office software like LibreOffice doesn't get "the spacing right," it's that MS never really got it quite right to begin with. Think how IE made compliant websites render incorrectly; this is the same thing in a sneakier package.
Apparently freeoffice (not Foss) has better compatibility with MS office.