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Comment by kristopolous | Hacker News Reader

Are people still using single user desktop office suites?

It makes me wonder if there's some kind of light decentralized thing that can be used with a convention oauth style front end

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I do. Although I have no love for Office, it allows me to keep all of my data locally seamlessly.

With online-only tools, I'm one unfair ban away from losing all my data.

Interesting. I just searched for "banned from google docs" and some people seem to either be questioning whether it happened to them or if it is possible.

I never considered that possibility.

I guess my other question is word processing programs usually have a target format of paper ... is that how you're still using it?

As far as I'm aware it's not banning you from Docs itself, but getting an account nuked for any external reasons (For a random example, Copyright problems on Google Drive or YouTube)

I don't use Word much. When I do, I use standard US Letter size. I rarely print to paper, though.

I use PowerPoint and Excel more frequently nowadays. Excel happens to be truly exceptional.

Excel on the desktop isn’t going any where.

MS Office isn't single user? It supports real-time collaboration, including in the desktop apps. Though that does require you to keep the files in onedrive or sharepoint.

Bro I just wanna write my CV and do my dad’s taxes I don’t wanna collaborate with 100s of my favourite redditors while leveraging AI

I guess i just live in a bubble where everyone uses org mode or other nerd tools to do that

Does your mom use org-mode, or does she use Word?

nah, she's big on neovim.

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