I love LibreOffice. Often when it’s mentioned I’ve seen people with the opposite sentiment, but it never caused me any trouble and I really enjoy the small tabs option for the interface.
Microsoft Office has once decided to take my locally created file, shove it somewhere in OneDrive, then revert it to the state it was 24 hours prior - I couldn’t recover the newer version. Guess which software never deleted my files? LibreOffice.
Libreoffice is so reliable. I’ve never had a real issue with it. I like that in this increasingly internet-always-on world I can count on Linux applications to just work whenever I please.
I have had the exact same experience with Office 365. It overwrote my local copy with an older version from cloud. My finished version was nowhere to be found. Took me half the night to create the doc again.
I always save MS docs under multiple file names now to defend against this. It is a hassle though. I also use LibreOffice for personal stuff, largely for this reason.
It saddens me that the best to have compatibility is to never touch MS Office. They are the largest player by far. Subtly fucking up or deviating from open document standards will always be seen as “well, the issue is non MS office”.
the tabbed UI is way better, much easier to find stuff if you havent already memorized it.
i know libreoffice has it but it should 100% be the default instead of the ancient paradigm of just throwing a million unorganized buttons in there and hoping you remember where everything is.
But people in the 90s were doing their work just fine, with that same UX paradigm. What’s the difference now?
Just to be clear, I’m not saying that software’s UI and UX doesn’t need to evolve. But it bothers me that a perfectly usable UI gets criticized only because it’s “old” and doesn’t look “modern” (tf is a “modern UI”, btw?).
I was astonished to find the other day that LibreOffice has no problem opening ClarisWorks files. That is an ancient Mac format that even Apple’s Pages has long since abandoned.
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