Which proprietary software do you prefer over their open-source alternatives, and why?

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Honestly anything I can't do easily in Google docs probably means I should just do it in Python anyway.

I need spreadsheets for work in commercial loan underwriting. We don't have a commercial underwriting system yet so all our templates are excel based. I waited to move to Linux solely because of Excel when working from home. During COVID though my work finally gave everyone laptops so I didn't need to do work on my personal rig anymore.

Have you tried quadratic? It's web based but it's an infinite spreadsheet that lets you use JS, Python, and SQL on your spreadsheets and is open source.

https://github.com/quadratichq/quadratic

Never used it but they've sponsored No Boiler Plate who is one of my favorite programming YouTubers a few times and he seems to sing their praises.