This was my experience too. Graphing a column of a couple thousand numbers took forever in LO, and is almost instant in Excel. There were other things like the "smoothness" of the user interface for lack of a better word. Excel seems more forgiving of not clicking in precisely the right place, and stuff like that. LO is more physically laborious to use, and the speed problem seems to compound this issue.
That was when I used Excel. Today I use mostly Python, and my few uses of a spreadsheet are handled by a crusty old Office 2010 license.
My impression is that Microsoft sweats the details of Excel the way that Apple sweats the details of iOS, and doing this is just a very big costly effort. I consider Excel to be the flagship of Microsoft.
Oddly enough I'm seeing Word vanishing. People just write in the chat or e-mail editors, and insert bitmap screen captures. Word processing is being relegated to stuff that nobody reads, such as business procedures and dissertations. ;-)
Mac version of Excel can be frustratingly slow, in my experience. And while multi-threaded computation of column formula, it can also be a real annoyance for small to mid-sized Excel sheets where the performance gain seems to be outweighed by whatever overhead is involved.
That was when I used Excel. Today I use mostly Python, and my few uses of a spreadsheet are handled by a crusty old Office 2010 license.
My impression is that Microsoft sweats the details of Excel the way that Apple sweats the details of iOS, and doing this is just a very big costly effort. I consider Excel to be the flagship of Microsoft.
Oddly enough I'm seeing Word vanishing. People just write in the chat or e-mail editors, and insert bitmap screen captures. Word processing is being relegated to stuff that nobody reads, such as business procedures and dissertations. ;-)