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
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it doesn’t feel that different than Word and Excel, tbh - I don’t know what you’re talking about
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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.
It’s not. Installed and tried last month. A bug that’s older that many people here with Fullscreen is still present.
Can you link the bug report please?
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.
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?
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)
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.
I prefer Google Sheets to Excel, but I still use LibreOffice Calc for everything anyway
I woudnt call a software where its hard to rotate an image “perfect”
Is this OOO from back in the early 2000s?
Yes and no?
Stuff happened in the early 10’s, and the community forked LibreOffice which became the spiritual successor to OOO, while the OO trademark got transferred to Apache.
Can they just refactor LO, for it to have a small core with a bunch of plugins, and with branding resembling Sun time OO in style, so that it’d run fast and attract those lost souls?
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…
Is microsoft office is any better?
Its a $129.99 a year subscription right.
No, office is no better.
LibreOffice can open any office format document and save in that format.
Yeah, in addition to the other million benefits. Like being much lighter, isn’t a giant spyware, decent scripting engine, covers all features that office has and more (it had PDF export way earlier), … My bachelor degree dissertation was in libreoffice in 2013. Since then, nobody can convince me to go back to Office.
The point is libreoffice is still being maintained.
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.
I’m trying to tell everyone LibreOffice, but OpenOffice has all the hits on search when people look for an alternative to Microsoft Office
Sorry I forget sometimes. It’s just that OpenOffice is a way better name. “Libre” is a pretty uncommon word in English and LibreOffice sounds like astrology software.
I don’t even know if I pronounce it right. Is it like libré or is it more like a lobster-tiger hybrid? Or a Lemur-cobra.hybtid?
Also, if they’re watching, the themes still make the UI all funky unless it’s on the default—at least for Calc, anyway.
Libre will really only ever be a French word to me so that’s how I always thought it would be pronounced. With an Americanish R sound.
Leeb-roffice
librɑɔfəs for you IPA enjoyers
I’ve always pronounced it lib-ray
I say leeb-ruh, like it’s a Spanish loanword.
Lee-bruh is definitely the way to go since it fluidly connects to the first syllable of “office”. If you do “lib-ray” or “lee-bray”, you’re forcing a ton of unnecessary annunciation on yourself.
bruh
Agreed, but sounds too much like “Libra Office” ♎️⚖️
At risk of going of topic, is this a Millennial meme?
Like, I really hope younger folks have seen this.
Ah, not it’s again!
Think “Zebra” (NA English) but with an ‘L’.
Sorry, English is not my 1st language, neither is Spanish (or wherever “libre” came from), but “libreoffice” sounds much better to me.
yeah i agree the name is terrible.
Not if you speak Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, French, or Romanian.
Which combined is more people than just English speakers.
English speaker here who knows like two phrases in Spanish and an okay amount of Japanese, yet I don’t get why English speakers don’t understand Libre.
Libre --> Liberty
Nacho Libre a movie about Lucha Libre
Are we really that bad at learning about other cultures and languages? 🫠
Unfortunately, corporations have bastardized the term “open” (looking at you, OpenAI) trying to get the credit Open Source software has earned.
Libre was a good choice to emphasize “free as in speech”.
IIRC the LibreOffice fork happened years before the public had any awareness of OpenAI (and when OpenAI was, in fact, publishing open models).
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.
Didn’t notice the OpenOffice and was extremely confused to see LibreOffice saying to ditch LibreOffice for LibreOffice
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?
Soon to be LibreCloud /s
There I go again…
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OnlyOffice is good too if you want a more modern interface.
afaik onlyoffice is russian, and has contracts with the russian govt and military
Fuck
right? :(
russian government and entities closer to it would use MyOffice (МойОфис). But usually russian organizations can choose any foss solution: LibreOffice, OpenOffice and, of course, OnlyOffice.
It’s free and open source. Someone could always fork it. I have been using OO.o and LO for years now but lately found that OO is better overall.
is that like onlyfans but like linkedin?
Sure. Whatever helps you sleep at night.
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
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!
Lotus123!
I feel targeted. I commented somewhere last week saying someone should use OpenOffice when I meant LibreOffice.
It’s just old reflexes.
Setup an autocorrect phrase :D
