Dexter's Law: Only proprietary software vendors want proprietary software and only fascists want fascism. Toots are my own. Self-employed. Father of three. I aim to keep this to technical topics relating to bhyve and OpenZFS, and the occasional humor and Latvia.
Dexter's Law: Only proprietary software vendors want proprietary software and only fascists want fascism. Toots are my own. Self-employed. Father of three. I aim to keep this to technical topics relating to bhyve and OpenZFS, and the occasional humor and Latvia.
Not that you asked about… word processing in 2026 but:
🥚LibreOffice now speaks markdown! But it strips out comments, as there isn’t a standard
🥚Word does not yet speak markdown, but does support ODT files
🥚Google Docs can now export markdown and makes comments into footnotes
🥚LibreOffice supports password-protected ODT files, but nothing else reads them
🥚Password-protected .docx files are supported by LibreOffice and Google Docs either offers “Preview” or strips the encryption for editing, while TextEdit shows AES encryption noise
🥚BBEdit can open .docx files, though they are not exactly user-friendly
🥚Collabora and OnlyOffice (Sveiki!) reportedly support encrypted .docx files
(I rarely use file-level encryption but it has its place and readability is important)
🥚Word mail merge is very broken while LibreOffice’s worked quite well (used for the BSDCan 2025 badges)
🥚I hope the spreadsheets aren’t making up numbers and I fear the interoperability of presentations