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There are alternatives. Loads of them. But using them requires thinking about what office software you use, which is too much for the vast majority.


The alternatives are honestly not as good.


Libreoffice has vastly superior CSV support compared to Microsoft office. The alternatives often have different strengths and weaknesses.


I’ve never had a problem working with CSVs in Excel, but I’ll take your word for it. For text operations, I frequently find myself using Notepad++ anyway.


I had a colleague who did most of his work in Excel but used LibreCalc when he had to open a weird CSV and then cobtinued working in Excel.


I've found not to trust excel for CSV's generally unless I build them manually in excel as a concatenation


Notepad++ has no problem displaying characters like checkmarks that Excel will mangle.


Linear.app and it's not even close.


Definitely has everything I need and then some, a breath of fresh air compared to Jira.


It’s not an Excel alternative?


No it's a JIRA alternative.




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