Brb, forking LibreOffice into a new spinoff
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this post was submitted on 05 May 2025
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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..
We should start recommending StarOffice! :D
Word Perfect!
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.
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)
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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...
I wonder why Apache continues to support OpenOffice. Its barely moved since 2014 and hasn't even had a security update since 2023. They could archive it as an active project (keep the code available for those who want it) and redirect most users who land on the OpenOffice site to LibreOffice.
If Apache archived all their dead projects, they wouldn't have any project left.
What? If nothing else, Airflow is massively used. Kafka is also quite very popular, I see those two very, very often.
Even good old httpd, while having lost its crown to nginx, is still powers like 1/3 of the web.
News of Apache death seem greatly exaggerated...
There's a ton more too. It's quite surprising how many projects that have. Isn't Cassandra theirs too?
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
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OnlyOffice is good too if you want a more modern interface.
is that like onlyfans but like linkedin?
Sure. Whatever helps you sleep at night.
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afaik onlyoffice is russian, and has contracts with the russian govt and military
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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).
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I still occasionally slip on that myself. It's the first non-Microsoft office suite I used and it's burned into my memory.
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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.
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