LibreOffice is just as good nowadays
All the cool kids are using military-grade, open-source productivity tools now
Fun fact about military-grade.
It means jack shit. It's a marketing buzz word, and should be illegal to use in commercial sense.
It generally means the cheapest option with the simplest possible operation that does the job well enough.
I assumed it meant that they just bribed the right politician/general?
LibreOffice is free so..... Yeah
Austriae est imperare orbi universo
isn't openoffice the better one or is the jury still out on that one?
i dunno, I just wordpad everything
LibreOffice is based on OpenOffice but OpenOffice is basically abandoned with every few updates or improvements over a good handful of years now. LibreOffice is generally seen as the successor and I wouldn’t be surprised is OpenOffice just gets archived.
absconded
Are you sure this is the word you meant to use? Having trouble parsing the sentence. How does a piece of software "abscond"?
I meant to say abandoned, no clue why it autocorrected to that on my phone.
Ah ok I figured you meant something else.
I think you have it backwards. LibreOffice is the better one. OpenOffice has not seen any real updates since 2015. ( The apache foundation that is technicality still maintaining openoffice themselves say that OpenOffice has too many open security issues)
I think openoffice might be better for compatibility with Microsoft format docx.
No, OpenOffice is dead in the water. Either use LibreOffice or, maybe, one of its forks.
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