I really don't think they're as cheap as you make them out to be.Īnd I agree with the sentiment. > I took the $319 I was about to spend on an Office license and I donated it to the LibreOffice project, and will just continue to do so every time I have to go through this process. See the post for details about what's wrong with Microsoft's Office offering. > It’s not that I’m cheap either, I just want something that works according to my preferences, not Microsoft’s. > if you use it day after day to do your job, the $150/year cost is basically nothing Just Works™. Ultimately, I do throw it in SQLite or Pandas, but Excel is just so nice for ad hocs if it fits in memory. You could argue that I'm using the wrong tool for the job. It's unfortunate because I try to support OSS as much as possible. As well, the pivot tables in Excel are in a totally different league than LibreOffice in terms performance and flexibility. LibreOffice absolutely chokes when I try to do any filtering or calculations. Just a few days ago I was poking around the Himalayan Database and one of the tables has about 50K records. where there is no Excel, so I use LibreOffice instead. You might have to wait a few seconds based on what you were trying to do, but Excel could handle it.Īt home I run Linux. but what was nice was being able to grab 600K records (maybe 20 cols) from a DB, throw it in Excel and get some results in a matter of minutes. Needless to say, I became very accustomed to and adept with using Excel. I used to work in an insurance company on an actuarial pricing team where the preferred tool was Excel (the modelling was pretty simple). but I'm unfortunately stuck with LibreOffice.

Excel is a piece of software that I would absolutely not hesitate to pay for.

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