[steebo]

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.

[freeAgent]

The alternatives are honestly not as good.

[jeltz]

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

[freeAgent]

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.

[jeltz]

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.

[emeril]

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

[gopher_space]

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

[MarcelOlsz]

Linear.app and it's not even close.

[codr7]

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

[freeAgent]

It’s not an Excel alternative?

[MarcelOlsz]

No it's a JIRA alternative.