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Poll: Lemmys outside the Anglosphere, do you have your computer set to English or your mother tongue? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Gumus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Holy fuck, I despise translated Excel with passion. That's a crime against humanity and the dumbest thing Microsoft ever did - and that's a stratosphere-level high bar already.

[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I kinda get it where MS is coming from with this decision, but I don’t approve of it at all. They want to be more user friendly with all audiences, so that they can sell excel to small farmers in France, who definitely don’t speak a word of English. I guess that attitude should tell you that doing serious calculations wasn’t the main goal here, even though nearly everyone is using Excel that way.

This application is a victim of its widespread success. People make some pretty intense things with it that definitely call for switching to Python, R, C#, fortran or whatever. Because of that, serious professionals can’t avoid it any more. They can’t just treat it as a fun little toy it really is.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Is it really a toy if it's turing complete?

[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 1 points 20 hours ago

As long as you’re doing simple little things, it’s fine. Try to do serious stuff with it, and you’ll end up fighting against the program at every turn. Professional grade software aims to make your life easier, not harder.