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Brb, forking LibreOffice into a new spinoff
Officeoffice
If I ever recommended openoffice it was just because I confused the names of the two products.
My dad uses LibreOffice for years, still call it OpenOffice 😂.
So many programs use those prefixes in Linux so it just gets confusing
Tbh I get them mixed up every time I talk about them. I don't know what's installed on my computers and I will most likely get them mixed up again in the future. I look it up every time but also forget it just as often.
I got the same issue with OpenCloud and NextCloud.
Maybe I'm the problem..
But I try
You mean OwnCloud, don't you?
There I go again..
Finally got my partner to use Libreoffice but complain about ui and not having all of the make it pretty options excel has. Losing formatting between the 2 programs was hardest hurdle to get a transition.
Doubt Common folk like me would even notice.
We should start recommending StarOffice! :D
Word Perfect!
I don’t know what LibreOffice was like when y’all formed your opinions on it 20 years ago, but right now it’s pretty much perfect
I woudnt call a software where its hard to rotate an image "perfect"
I've tried writing a resume last month and prepare a presentation (Writer and Impress). And I was very frustrated by crashes and lack of features. The interface is quite good, more intuitive than the MS equivalents.
However, OnlyOffice was really nice to use.
LibreOffice is good. Very good even. I just wish Calc always had a 1-to-1 feature parity with Excel for it's formulas, it would make it so much easier to collaborate on a spreadsheet with others. I think I had to wait a few years on e.g. XLOOKUP.
It’s true, Excel specifically is head and shoulders above anything excel-like.
It is pretty much the same as 20 years ago. That is, good enough for basic use cases but nowhere near as complete as MS Office. It isn't a serious program for professional use.
For documents I started learning Typst and LaTeX a while ago and now I greatly prefer either of them over LibreOffice. Being able to write comments that don't render in the PDF is also very useful (i.e. when I do my homework in LaTeX/Typst I'll put class notes there as well)
Laughing Out Loud at you
Don't laugh too loud, you'll make LibreOffice Base crash somehow.
Wouldn’t you like that, professional Word monkey?
It's not. Installed and tried last month. A bug that's older that many people here with Fullscreen is still present.
I am still more inclined to follow the "old Linux nerds rulebook" and keep recommending to learn LaTex ;-)
LyX and LaTeX and you can really impress your lecturer with magnificent postscript documents...at least you could...
LibreOffice may not be the prettiest or the most stable, but dammit, it gets the job done
LibreOffice's UI is fine on Linux, on Windows not so much. OnlyOffice is a good alternative for Windows
I think it's better on Windows. It feels like a good old school Win9x app
I still occasionally slip on that myself. It's the first non-Microsoft office suite I used and it's burned into my memory.
Same here .... I started off for about four or five years on OpenOffice until it devolved into some weird open/private organization and everyone revolted and it turned into LibreOffice. I held onto OpenOffice for a while and then realized the LibreOffice was more open source system .... but you're right, whenever I look up anything as an Microsoft alternative, OpenOffice is the first to come to mind.
Whats funny is the people mentioning open office then saying libre office is not up to snuff and when they don't seem to realize the difference you know they have not used it in awhile. I mean like over a decade likely if your mentioning open office.
I'm trying to tell everyone LibreOffice, but OpenOffice has all the hits on search when people look for an alternative to Microsoft Office
I didn't even realize you could install OpenOffice anymore... it's doesn't seem available in the Arch repos. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Apache_OpenOffice
Oh, wow. TIL https://www.openoffice.org/
If only LibreOffice’s user interface weren’t so outdated, I would definitely use it instead of OnlyOffice.
It has a nice ribbon UI like MS Office! Unfortunately it is super hidden as you first need to enable experimental settings before you can switch it on.
Outdated on Windows? Because on Linux, the LibreOffice UI is great, imo.
I think it's plenty functional, but it looks dated and less flashy. I don't mind that myself, but it does put some people off
Only office is basically the same interface again, all cloning MS-office 2007-2010.
Bleach.
Both are trash tbh
what’s the better alternative?
OnlyOffice. Newer and somewhat less features, but the UI is so much better than LibreOffice. I've been on a quest to find the best Office alternative and OnlyOffice is what I've settled on
Good there's other free alternatives out there. I'm in the office 97/2003 was peak ui camp, the rest is just a more flashy UI that doesn't really add more value.
Same, and it integrates nicely with Nextcloud
I use OnlyOffice, but I'm not particularly discerning with my suite of office software and only use it for lightweight tasks.
this post was submitted on 05 May 2025
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