I write all my longer posts here on Libre Office Writer, and use the spreadsheets for my business.
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Yes, but I'm mostly on Google Docs... Not even MS Office I use anymore...
But most of people will not stop MS Office soon, it's a sort of mandatory on corporate.
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Feeling a little old. Libreoffice forked from OpenOffice.org in 2010, which I used extensively too.
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Never going back to Office or even Windows
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Yeah, the freedom you get from Open Source is just so great.
No big tech trying to squeeze every dollar from you.
Same with phones, GrapheneOS FTW
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Yes, there was an attempt to create such phone from GrapheneOS but it seems that the deal with the hardware vendor didn't end up working.
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I've only used open office since 2008 for anything where office isn't preinstalled by school/company. Gimp too, I don't see Photoshop as having any advantage.
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Libreoffice has everything I need to succeed. I used it alot to take notes, add math formula, make powerpoints, spreadsheets, access database, and write essay. Libreoffice has been a life saver every time the school or job require me to use Microsoft office.
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For my private computing I'm only using LibreOffice for years now.
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I've been using it since forever(when it used to be OpenOffice). Works great.
The other day I was talking with someone and they mentioned that to use MS Office you now have to pay a monthly fee. That just sounds insane to me. I've been so long using Open Source that it surprised me how normal people operate in the world.
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They are desperate for money just when I thought MS Office 2003 worked fine for me they just happen to upgrade each time and now its subscription based. Schools always try to have me use the latest version, but some how I get away using old version of MS Word. Now I can keep up with features thanks to Libreoffice/OpenOffice.
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It's quite standard on Linux nowadays, which is great.
I remember asking my university to install OpenOffice.org, and the excuse at the time was people are not using it in the real world, so no need to install it. ca. early 2000s.
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All European institutes should be able to use the Open Document Format (ODF) in exchanges with citizens and national administrations,
It just makes sense.
Imagine in 20 years Microsoft collapses, like Nokia did with the phones for example, and the closed formats erode over time. You would have locked out data.
Open source FTW.
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I used OnlyOffice, but I missed some options in Presentation. Then I switched to LibreOffice which has a lot more options :-)
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Still using the old-fashioned OpenOffice. I think it might be time to finally switch to LibreOffice. Not really following the development, but it feels that OpenOffice hasn’t received significant updates in years.
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My wife prefers M$ for all the included templates and models which are lacking in LibreOffice. I'm a long time Linux user and I'm coming from an era where I used StarOffice, then OpenOffice. Around 2010, Oracle acquired OpenOffice, and I noticed developers were quitting Oracle and fork it to create LibreOffice. OpenOffice was poorly maintained. To all my family, friends and collegues, I had to tell them to switch from OO to LO. At that time (2007-2008), I followed with passion the OOXML debacle with M$ paying for fast-tracking it's fake 'document standard' for ISO certification. I would even refuse to open attachment if they were docx file, asking for the sender to save it as odt. It has come a long way, but the compatibility for OOXML document is far more better than years ago. Nowadays all this story is long forgotten and we got young people using WPS Office. The battle goes on with OnlyOffice vs Collabora Online for online replacement as Officee365 or Gdocs.
TIPS: If you value privacy and are looking for online collaboration, have a look at CryptPad, it's an end-to-end encrypted and open-source collaboration suite It's self hostable or you can choose between many instances. https://cryptpad.org/
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I don't like the design and UI/UX of LibreOffice.
I'm currently using OnlyOffice, which is also a good substitute for Microsoft Office and open-source & free.
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OnlyOffice is the best, and easy to get into if you've extensively used modern Office versions.
Plus, having a self-hostable office suite sounds amazing for those who can benefit from that setup.
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Not free? Are you sure is FOSS?
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Yes I have it works for me
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I use it everyday, Writer and Calc.
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Yep. It is the best.
Onlyoffice is great too and can be run in Nextcloud.
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I’m trying it on fedora lately.
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Ive switched to linux (learning curve for sure, but my computer is mine not Microsoft's) and only use libre office. Its amazing and does anything word does. Just need to know where to look.
Yes, windows and Microsoft office is convenient. But I am willing to forego some of that convenience for privacy and freedom. I wish more people thought this way.
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I also love the portability of it of not having to touch the inner parts of my os, and I can use from computer to the next.
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If you are using MSO you are continually pushing copies of your personal / internal data to outside servers, accessible by foreign entities and governments.
With LibreOffice, your data remains on your own machine.
If you prefer to use cloud, then run a NextCloud instance from a locally operated datacenter / cloud provider, or even connect to your own physical machine using Start 9 or similar.
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Not in many years, but it was fine before
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I've been using it for a couple of months. I mostly use LibreCalc, which is a great replacement for Excel.
It's nice having office software that doesn't spy on you.
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It works. I haven't used Microsoft products in at least ten years.
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Nice! +1
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It's great, but since I use it in very rare occasions I've switched to abiword (for word) and gnumeric (excel), which are lighter, because I'm not a heavy advanced-features user, for complex things I tend to other tools. Afaik libreoffice is a big monolithic program and each one of its components (writer, calc, base, etc) 'just' frontends, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but I did not care for the most of it.