Comment on LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs | The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded by nearly 1 million users a week

RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Mustakrakish@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Been using openoffice for 15+ years, what made you switch to libreoffice?

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  • FreeBooteR69@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Open office isn’t getting much in the way of updates these days and is considered dormant and maintained by the Apache foundation. Libre-office is the office suite maintained by the document foundation and is where the bulk of developers moved over to.

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    • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      OpenOffice’s old branding from Sun times was so nice though. Felt like modernity and magic in the sense of Star Wars prequels, Stargate SG-1, that warm kind of thing.

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  • nahostdeutschland@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Libreoffice was created as a fork of OpenOffice because the development of OO became stale due to Oracle. If you’re still on OpenOffice, try LibreOffice - it’s kind of the same, but better

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  • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oracle.

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  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Pretty much what everyone said, especially better import/export of microsoft document formats - but one of the things they didn’t mention is that LibreOffice can be easily downloaded and installed from repositories. If I do a fresh linux install it’s just a command line or some other software package installer away. Super easy. I find LibreOffice runs smoother. Only downside is that sometimes it takes a while to load.

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    • Zink@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And if you’re using a full featured turnkey kind of distro like Mint, LibreOffice is pre-installed and ready to update via the repo.

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  • joel_feila@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    For me it was docx. Oo couldn’t get the formatting right but libre could. This was back when docx was new and i was in school ao the teachers didn’t take off for strange lines or bad formatting.

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    • Mustakrakish@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Fair, open office still hates .docx lol

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  • gamer@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    For the past like decade the only “updates” OpenOffice has been getting are questionable code comment changes from one dude. These changes literally do nothing, and people have suggested that the only reason he does it is to make OpenOffice seem like it’s still being developed, even though it was abandoned long ago.

    Why? IDK, but I think it’s just some stubborn asshole with an axe to grind with the LibreOffice project. OpenOffice still has stronger name recognition than LibreOffice, so a lot of people still use it.

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    • Mustakrakish@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Lol is it really just like

      // I did something, trust me

      And he pushes it out lmao?

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      • gamer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Pretty much: github.com/apache/openoffice/commits/trunk/

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