I second this. There’s a little bit of a learning curve on some of the functionality, but it’s not bad at all. And most of the functionality is very easy to find. I moved over to Libre Office several years ago and it’s been great.
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MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 hours ago
www.libreoffice.org if you want microsoft to stop messing with your office apps.
ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
Office would have a learning curve too if you hadn’t been using it since you were a child.
tdawg@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Tbf it was simplier back when people first used it
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
When people were first using it they were coming from DOS or old machines. Many were using a mouse for the first time. It wasn’t simpler to them.
SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 11 hours ago
You can now enable a tabbed interface similar to Microsoft Office
simple@piefed.social 13 hours ago
There is also only office which has better compatibility with MSOffice file types
mintiefresh@piefed.ca 12 hours ago
This here.
I wish Only Office got as much fanfare as LibreOffice. The UI is much closer to Microsoft Office and it tends to have better compatibility.
I have both installed though and use them both lol.
egrets@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
OnlyOffice is Russian-owned, via a holding company in Singapore. When Russia invaded Ukraine and sanctions threatened the business, they obfuscated this, but it’s still Lev Bannov’s product.
The importance you attach to this is up to you, but they try quite hard to hide it.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
LibreOffice has a ribbon UI too!
mintiefresh@piefed.ca 10 hours ago
That it does :)
LibreOffice is awesome too. No complaints really.
fluckx@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Libreoffice their latest blogpost is from the 20th of August 2025. There have been a few releases in the past few months as well.
Openoffice their latest ( Apache Openoffice 4.1.15 ) was released almost 2 years ago ( December 2023 ).
Libreoffice seems like a more recent, better supported tool over Openoffice which hasn’t seen any updates since 2023 according to their own website.
I’m on my phone, so I didn’t search extensively. But I think that also plays a role in why there’s a much larger fanbase for libreoffice rather than Openoffice.
I’ve no recent experience with either so I can’t comment on how well either works.
mintiefresh@piefed.ca 11 hours ago
I believe Open Office and Only Office are different products.
Only Office had a major release in June, 2025.
And you are correct that Open Office last update was back in December 2023.