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  • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 天前

    95% of the time Microsoft formats render fine ¯_(ツ)_/¯.

    Ask the Danes if that’s true. Apparently not so much.

    You write “edge case” yourself.

    In my case yes. In case of the Danish public sector it’s either not an edge case or 5% broken documents are way too much. I’m not a Dane in the public sector to tell which it is but it appears to be one of those two.

    But the way forward is not playing catch.

    Forward not, but it is to deal with countless of existing documents. There is no way around this fact. That’s like expecting Steam Decks to be successful by not providing compatibility with existing Windows games. Valve tried already with the first generation of Steam Machines / SteamOS 1.x & 2.x. Didn’t work.

    Are native Steam Linux Runtime native games a better path forward than relying in Proton? Absolutely. Will there ever be a Linux version of Diablo 4? No.

    A community project like LibreOffice can afford not to care much about legacy MS Office documents. A commercial enterprise that expects to get public contracts absolute cannot. And what’s so insane about this is that Collabora is actually the main contractor for Valve on SteamOS and yet they don’t transfer the business learnings from that to their own office suite.

    • kossa@feddit.orgEnglish
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      7 天前

      Have you read the article at all?

      However, this trial was terminated when elections took place earlier this year. A spokesperson confirmed that the experiment had concluded, and would not resume again. They also confirmed that no evaluation benchmarking Collabora’s performance against Microsoft Office had taken place either.

      This was no “we evaluated, it did not work”. It was “we don’t like this. Hey, Bob, please tell us how it doesn’t work” - “Sure, I had this one document which rendered wrongly” - “see, it doesn’t work, now we can scratch the project”.

      • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        7 天前

        Have you read the article at all?

        Unlike you I actually did.

        This was no “we evaluated, it did not work”.

        there were reports late last year that the officials were running into formatting issues such as blank pages when opening Office documents in Collabora and vice versa.

        It was “we don’t like this. Hey, Bob, please tell us how it doesn’t work” - “Sure, I had this one document which rendered wrongly” - “see, it doesn’t work, now we can scratch the project”.

        Vivid imagination. Nothing of that kind is in the article but you seem to have made up your mind.

        • kossa@feddit.orgEnglish
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          7 天前

          There were reports. Yeah, like your report of “I have this edge case, where it doesn’t work”, but you seem to have made up your mind 😅