Which of these word processors have you used this month (December 2025)?
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@evan Okay I have used word but please understand
Work.
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@evan I just want to know who is still using Apache OpenOffice and not LibreOffice and in what context?
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@evan Proton Docs more than any of the above.
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@evan Someone would seriously use Apache OpenOffice?!
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@evan Someone would seriously use Apache OpenOffice?!
@neal idk maybe?!?!!
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@evan I voted for LibreOffice, but in reality it was Calc that I used, not Writer. I shouldn't have voted in this poll.
@manu probably not!
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@evan I checked Libre Office only. Also this month I was teaching my daughter about computer history and we used a dos emulator and created doc with Wordstar.
@mikeblake cool! You know George RR Martin only uses Wordstar?
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@evan Okay I have used word but please understand
Work.
@Epic_Null this *gestures intimately* is a judgment free zone.
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@evan I just want to know who is still using Apache OpenOffice and not LibreOffice and in what context?
@amd why does everyone keep asking that? I didn't want to talk about forks so I included both. If it's important, do another poll.
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@amd why does everyone keep asking that? I didn't want to talk about forks so I included both. If it's important, do another poll.
@evan absolutely ask the poll the way you want.
But OpenOffice is basically unmaintained and full of security issues these days and I’m curious who chooses or is forced to still use it.
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@evan At work, we're a Microsoft shop. In my personal life, I use a text editor.
@mpjgregoire did you use word this month?
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@evan is "none" a valid answer too? Or "Markdown"?
@durchaus well, the question is "of these". None is a valid answer, but you can't respond with it for ActivityPub polls.
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@evan absolutely ask the poll the way you want.
But OpenOffice is basically unmaintained and full of security issues these days and I’m curious who chooses or is forced to still use it.
@amd good luck on your learning journey.
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@evan bbedit.
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@mpjgregoire did you use word this month?
@evan I used Word most recently on Friday, working on a proposal.
But on the other hand I used Jupyter -> LaTeX -> Emacs -> pdf on Tuesday, a publishing system that gave me much more pleasure. Not something that my colleagues will realistically repeat though.
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Apache OpenOffice lists download information here, for everyone who is interested:
https://www.openoffice.org/stats/downloads.html
They say there have been about 390M downloads total. From the stats, I'm estimating somewhere in the low tens of thousands of downloads per day.
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@evan bbedit.
@quinn you do your professional writing on bbedit?
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@evan LaTeX/Emacs?
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@evan I did not use Google Docs by choice. Some of my partners use it and I haven't convinced them to move off of it.
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Apache OpenOffice lists download information here, for everyone who is interested:
https://www.openoffice.org/stats/downloads.html
They say there have been about 390M downloads total. From the stats, I'm estimating somewhere in the low tens of thousands of downloads per day.
@evan LibreOffice downloads: https://stats.documentfoundation.org/downloads#day,version
Gli ultimi otto messaggi ricevuti dalla Federazione
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@c420 lol
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As luck would have it, the timing didn't work your way. A re-post hit the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47473178
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@alice @garyseven cool username!
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Hi @garyseven, #Welcome to the community!
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I thought the middle one was the most interesting — it’s pre-1927, made with a sharpened nail for the barb instead of a sliver of bone (as became common), was likely made by, sized for, and used by someone just a bit bigger than I am (see the linked article, above), and is beautifully carved with an octopus and two otters — you can see photos of it online:
https://collection-online.moa.ubc.ca/search/item?keywords=A137
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Was asked today, as an icebreaker, to share what I was currently obsessed with.
My answer: The design and function of these wooden (Pacific) halibut hooks that have used by the communities of the northwest coast of the US for thousands of years: https://hakaimagazine.com/features/the-halibut-hook-revival/
I went to see these examples, from the Haida, at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC, yesterday.
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Tony Hoare passed away.
This quote has stuck with me since I first read it as a teen. It sparked a decade-long obsession with simplicity later expanded by Rich Hickey's Simple vs Easy.
"I conclude that there are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies" https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/C._A._R._Hoare#The_Emperor's_Old_Clothes
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@IanAMartin @the_turtle @catsalad yeah I know, but I mean
It was a gimmick
