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Yeah nah. I maybe for light weight every day use yeah. But MS Office is a beast for pros.
And they have excel. Nothing beats excel.
I’m not a pro but all the people I know that use it say excel is the best by far
LibreOffice is a really chunky and ugly piece of software.
During the pandemic, my job handed out Linux laptops with open source software like libreOffice, and after a month, people were secretly using Google Sheets.
Yeah, “upgrade” is a strong word for something that’s ugly as sin and just about as unintuitive to use
It’s only unintuitive to you because you memorized how things work in MS Office.
I don’t use office lol
MS Office is scriptable with basic. LibreOffice, on the other hand, supports basic, python, js, beanshell.
Both software have there advantages. Scientific research is often done on Linux, and they use LibreOffice. In University, we also used it, because they said it has better functions for our use-case.
Yep LibreOffice has felt like a beta for the last 10 years. Whoever makes this suggestion might as well use Notepad, because that’s all the functions they seem to need and it’s probably more stable than Writer anyways.
“You can’t get fired for choosing Intel” Was corporate maxim not so long ago. See where it went.
Libreoffice is amazing. I had dismissed it ages ago back when I had no reason to boycott the US, but now I tried it again after switching to Linux and it works amazingly good.
There’s no need for MS Office for personal use, though unfortunately for my large corporate employer it probably isn’t going to realistically be considered.
Good marketing point: LibreOffice has NO ENSHITTIFICATION! Great!
Personally I’ve had an issue with LibreOffice mainly in that it tends to be more unstable and clunky. It oftentimes goes unresponsive on me and has crashed a time or two when loading larger files, but that may be because I’m running it in Windows so I dunno
I imported a 10,000 line csv and every time I scrolled, half the data wouldn’t update. From scrolling.
It’s pretty unusable for me.
Now if they could do the same for Gimp. What a UX mess.
Isn’t Krita considered the better open source image editor now? I keep meaning to learn it.
Its more for drawing than editing images, so not a complete gimp replacement
As of now, there is only Gimp. And it’s very bad.
I only use this. It got to a point where it is superior to MS Word.
America and Germany are fascist, open source is the only.plus here
I like using OnlyOffice, too, which is based in Latvia.
libreoffice is great! onlyoffice is good too if you like more compatability with office and docx, but it’s more geared toward online services and subscriptions.
cryptpad.fr if you need a google docs alternative. DONATE BTW; they are not a megacorp.
LO is good software.
It replaced MSOffice Word for me (and I had been using Word since the early 90s). It also has a few extensions one may want to consider adding. Stuff like extra dictionaries for example, or better (than the default provided) ePub/HTML export tools.
I use libreoffice but man libreoffice writer is so finnicky. Formatting is all wonky. Definitely not a 1:1 replacement. It will format things differently than if you opened it in word
I was using Microsoft Word on and off since 6.0 (shipped with Office 4.0), and no version of Microsoft Word was formatting your documents in the same way that the other versions did, and the same version liked to break things on different version of Windows, and sometimes ever on the same version of Windows on the other computer, because locale settings were different.
That being said, Word is a toy that can be replaced with just basically any word processing software (unless you need multiplayer editing from the Sharepoint), it’s the Excel which is the true strength of MS Office, and unfortunately it’s irreplaceable by anything that isn’t purpose-built database processing software.
Excel doesn’t do anything very well, but it can do everything that the twisted minds of the upper management can imagine, and in the hands of person experienced enough and mad enough (and you will become mad enough after couple years of VBA) the possibilities are endless.
LibreOffice Calc on the other hand is limited to 1024 columns, which is a hard limit I hit more than once, and external database integrations are real PITA.
How does it stack to Open Office? Got that years ago & it’s been treating me well.
LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice and most developers went to work on LibreOffice instead. You should consider switching to LibreOffice.
OpenOffice is not recommended, I hope you mean OnlyOffice, they get confused sometimes.
Nope! I do believe it’s OpenOffice, an older version, idk I downloaded a popular FOSS version a few years back. Pretty insane that Microsoft actually thinks people should pay a subscription to rent this stuff, lol
OpenOffice is basically dead. Libreoffice is a branch of it that gets regularly updated.
I find Softmaker FreeOffice easier to use, especially if you want a similar UI to MS office, german company but not opensource. Now, I only use it occasionally, I don’t know which one is better for heavy users, they have a paid version too.
For some reason I don’t fully understand, LibreOffice hides the option to switch the UI in
View > User Interface. The optionTabbedseems to resemble MS ribbon-like style.They should possibly consider to make that a default question on first start-up, like: ‘What interface layout feels familiar?’
They do that
Ah, great, I was not aware of that. I typically stick to the defaults, but this may help to convince others.
My impression is that LO criticism is unexpectedly harsh. After all, it’s a free and powerful alternative to MO and you are in no way forced to use it.
It’s less polished, obviously, but great for a wide range of use cases. Power users relying on specific features: different story.