cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/4802776

As you know, this will be the final version of LO to have Semantic Versioning; all future releases will have Calendar Versioning.

  • irotsoma@lemmy.world
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    Hey I contributed 2 of those just this month reinstalling Windows after an update broke my raid array by modifying the partitions on one of the drives rather than the array. And then decided the drive was corrupt. And then finally accepting this as the last straw and giving up and installing Linux as my primary OS. Only keeping Windows for the few games that require it, or I’d just run a VM for the few other times I might need it.

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      Probably zero, since LibreOffice is a part of the repo.

      And so far we’ve had 1,587,383 downloads from our site! (So that doesn’t include Linux distributions that package it themselves.)

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    Is this the best open source doc editor? I’m slowly degoogling and using drive/docs is a hard one to move away from. Can LO open Google docs?

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      It’s more of an alternative to Microsoft Office, but it is mostly considered THE open source office suite for GNU/Linux.

      For something cloud-based, you may want to consider OnlyOffice. I’ve never used it, so I can’t say how good it is.

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    1 year ago

    Should probably put it on the MS Store, because somebody else already has and is charging money for it…

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      I think it’s nice for end users regardless. Very easy to tell the age of your install.

      Especially when a project is fairly mature and not making breaking api changes regularly.

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    It still sucks though. It doesn’t play nice with dark mode on Windows at all. I’ve been trying to get away from Google docs and I was hoping Libre would be a decent alternative, but it just feels bloated and clunky in comparison. I really wish it didn’t.

    If anyone has alternatives I’m all ears.

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      It doesn’t suck, it’s just different from what you are used to. Especially the compatibility to Excel-Formulars impresses me.

      But of course there are open source alternatives. OnlyOffice is often recommendet if you prefer the Microsoft Office look. I think you could also self host it to make it a real alternative to google docs, but I haven’t looked into it.

      Avoid Openoffice, it sounds similar to Onlyoffice. It is the predecessor of libreoffice and deprecated.