Which of these word processors have you used this month (December 2025)?
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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
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@evan where's the "none of them" option
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@evan i selected LibreOffice, but i actually use GNOME Text Editor more often
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@evan LibreOffice downloads: https://stats.documentfoundation.org/downloads#day,version
@netmackan that's great. There were a few replies along the line of, "Nobody uses Apache OpenOffice, why did you list it." The main reason I listed it was so I didn't have to have these conversations, which apparently didn't work. But it does have users, so I don't regret it.
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@evan i selected LibreOffice, but i actually use GNOME Text Editor more often
@tragivictoria the question isn't what you use most often.
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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.
@starluna the question isn't about choice.
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@evan LaTeX/Emacs?
@monnier What about them?
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@evan Proton Docs more than any of the above.
@dennyhenke the question wasn't what you use most.
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@evan You left out "none of the above" as a choice.
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@evan where's the "none of them" option
@ity I didn't want to waste one of my four available slots on nota, and ActivityPub doesn't have a native way to respond nota to a multi-option poll. The best you can do is a reply, which you did!
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@ity I didn't want to waste one of my four available slots on nota, and ActivityPub doesn't have a native way to respond nota to a multi-option poll. The best you can do is a reply, which you did!
@evan nota?
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@evan You left out "none of the above" as a choice.
@ndw I did indeed!
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@evan I retired in September. One of the biggest benefits was I no longer have to use Word, Excel or PowerPoint . I still write documents and spreadsheets but exclusively in LibreOffice.
Gli ultimi otto messaggi ricevuti dalla Federazione
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@stranobiovolta @attualita dopo la polonia mi sa che ha detto basta alle magliette 😆🤦
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@subnetspider sure!
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@shaedrich @lontrachen @engideer @parismarx
I think in both cases the monetary resources expense is not the problem and that's why I didn't mention them even though I heard about calculations of up to 25% of GDP.
The real difference is human resource requirements and subsidization due to returns given by collected data (or at least that is the claim).
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@fabriziob @lontrachen @engideer @parismarx Doesn't matter if it is 10 years or 100. It was an almost random number. My point was that—unless we have an apocalypse that throws us back decades or centuries—it's not an easy comparison and your point would be better made without. I'm not saying, you're wrong, I'm just pointing out that the comparison isn't helping the case. Not more and not less.
China on the other hand, is exactly that kind of comparison, I was asking for instead 👍🏻
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@shaedrich @lontrachen @engideer @parismarx
1989 is not even 40 years ago and I am sure that we can find way higher expenditure in China today.
Fact is, you pay less because you are at the same time providing training data.
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@fabriziob @lontrachen @engideer @parismarx That's a poor comparison: If you wait 50 years, almost anybody with a little tech and business skills can offer this cheaper (they would vary in how much but they'd be cheaper one way or another). He might be more affordable "inflation-adjusted", but that'd be at least complex to determine
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@Z0t è satira
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L'unica risposta che mi viene da dare è stocaxxo 😁
