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Of course you'll find countless HN users who use it or have set their family up with it, but in general, no, I don't think many people want locally managed files anymore. The whole point of documents is to share them, and cloud offerings do that better.

The whole landscape has shifted from underneath LO and I'm not sure they have the capacity to adapt. Especially since they still haven't made a decision about what the toolbar UI should be, something that should have been settled a decade ago.

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> The whole point of documents is to share them

Many are shared. You never made a file for yourself only?

> Especially since they still haven't made a decision about what the toolbar UI should be

Could you explain?

I still use google docs for my own spreadsheets because it’s just a better tool, and it keeps my files available on every device.

The toolbar UI story is that MS added the ribbon UI in 2007 and LO finally added it in but didn’t turn it on, they now have a settings page with multiple toolbar versions you can pick from for some reason. Meanwhile the ribbon is now obsolete before LO even utilised it.

Take a look at how dreadful the LO toolbar is. Hundreds of random icons for things you couldn’t even name. Compared to google docs where every icon on the toolbar is identifiable and useful.

Sure, share the documents, but running apps over the net - ha!

I despise every time I open an MS Doc or gmail. Just now gmail loaded almost 13MB of "app" - just to show an almost empty inbox, what a waste! And (behind the scenes) it's still loading stuff after almost 30 secs.

Cloud apps are the IT version of supersizing. Morgan Spurlock showed what happens when you use capacity just because it's available - obesity.

You might have an unusually slow setup. For me on an average computer and internet, gmail and google docs loads instantly.

Only web app I had an issue with was Adobe XD which would load the whole 700mb project file on every page load. Though I think we were pushing the program beyond it’s designed use case.

Do you have any actual evidence for this assertion?

Anecdotally, it's been a very long time since I've seen an actual document sent to me. Across multiple companies, it's always been an office or google docs link.

There are close to no compelling reasons for a company to email document attachments around these days.

Really? Because I'm still being sent documents frequently by a lot of people. And the number of PDFs I get sent that are originally Word documents is huge.

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