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.
Didn’t notice the OpenOffice and was extremely confused to see LibreOffice saying to ditch LibreOffice for LibreOffice
Is microsoft office is any better?
Its a $129.99 a year subscription right.
No, office is no better.
LibreOffice can open any office format document and save in that format.
Yeah, in addition to the other million benefits. Like being much lighter, isn’t a giant spyware, decent scripting engine, covers all features that office has and more (it had PDF export way earlier), … My bachelor degree dissertation was in libreoffice in 2013. Since then, nobody can convince me to go back to Office.
The point is libreoffice is still being maintained.
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.
I don’t even know if I pronounce it right. Is it like libré or is it more like a lobster-tiger hybrid? Or a Lemur-cobra.hybtid?
Also, if they’re watching, the themes still make the UI all funky unless it’s on the default—at least for Calc, anyway.
I’ve always pronounced it lib-ray
Think “Zebra” (NA English) but with an ‘L’.
Ah, not it’s again!
At risk of going of topic, is this a Millennial meme?
Like, I really hope younger folks have seen this.
Libre will really only ever be a French word to me so that’s how I always thought it would be pronounced. With an Americanish R sound.
Leeb-roffice
librɑɔfəs for you IPA enjoyers
I say leeb-ruh, like it’s a Spanish loanword.
Lee-bruh is definitely the way to go since it fluidly connects to the first syllable of “office”. If you do “lib-ray” or “lee-bray”, you’re forcing a ton of unnecessary annunciation on yourself.
Agreed, but sounds too much like “Libra Office” ♎️⚖️
bruh
yeah i agree the name is terrible.
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).
Not if you speak Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, French, or Romanian.
Which combined is more people than just English speakers.
English speaker here who knows like two phrases in Spanish and an okay amount of Japanese, yet I don’t get why English speakers don’t understand Libre.
Libre --> Liberty
Nacho Libre a movie about Lucha Libre
Are we really that bad at learning about other cultures and languages? 🫠
Sorry, English is not my 1st language, neither is Spanish (or wherever “libre” came from), but “libreoffice” sounds much better to me.
I still occasionally slip on that myself. It’s the first non-Microsoft office suite I used and it’s burned into my memory.
Same here … I started off for about four or five years on OpenOffice until it devolved into some weird open/private organization and everyone revolted and it turned into LibreOffice. I held onto OpenOffice for a while and then realized the LibreOffice was more open source system … but you’re right, whenever I look up anything as an Microsoft alternative, OpenOffice is the first to come to mind.
I’m trying to tell everyone LibreOffice, but OpenOffice has all the hits on search when people look for an alternative to Microsoft Office
I didn’t even realize you could install OpenOffice anymore… it’s doesn’t seem available in the Arch repos. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Apache_OpenOffice
Brb, forking LibreOffice into a new spinoff
Officeoffice
Let’s just call it The Office
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?
Tomcat is dead?
I’m not sure you understand the scale
Can they just refactor LO, for it to have a small core with a bunch of plugins, and with branding resembling Sun time OO in style, so that it’d run fast and attract those lost souls?
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
It looks the same as it did when I formed my opinion, and I keep checking it out on a yearly basis. I sincerely want to use it, but I get physical discomfort every time I open it. I have put a lot of effort into forcing myself to accept poorly designed foss alternatives but the look and feel of Libreoffice is simply intolerable.
it doesn’t feel that different than Word and Excel, tbh - I don’t know what you’re talking about
I feel like you’re confusing the “look” with “layout”. Colors, margins, element sizes are not properly aligned, and it creates genuine physical discomfort
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.
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)
Laughing Out Loud at you
Don’t laugh too loud, you’ll make LibreOffice Base crash somehow.
Wouldn’t you like that, professional Word monkey?
It’s not. Installed and tried last month. A bug that’s older that many people here with Fullscreen is still present.
Can you link the bug report please?
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.
I prefer Google Sheets to Excel, but I still use LibreOffice Calc for everything anyway
I feel targeted. I commented somewhere last week saying someone should use OpenOffice when I meant LibreOffice.
It’s just old reflexes.
Setup an autocorrect phrase :D
If only LibreOffice’s user interface weren’t so outdated, I would definitely use it instead of OnlyOffice.
Outdated on Windows? Because on Linux, the LibreOffice UI is great, imo.
I think it’s plenty functional, but it looks dated and less flashy. I don’t mind that myself, but it does put some people off
Only office is basically the same interface again, all cloning MS-office 2007-2010.
Bleach.
It has a nice ribbon UI like MS Office! Unfortunately it is super hidden as you first need to enable experimental settings before you can switch it on.
Have you actually tried LibreOffice in a while? The Ribbon UI hasn’t been experimental since LibreOffice 6.2, which was released in February 2019. It is a normal option, called Tabbed, in the User Interface settings under View > User Interface.
I was following this article from 2023 https://itsfoss.com/libreoffice-ribbon-interface/
But great to known that this is way easier now. Thanks for hint
The date seems to be misleading. When you open the comments section and load all comments, you’ll see that there are quite a few comments that are 9 years old. The article is thus far older than what it’s saying, and it unfortunately showcases again how many people rely on very old (and in this case misleading) information about LibreOffice.
The page in question is the first search engine hit for me when searching “LibreOffice ribbon”. The official docs are not even on the first page. Looks like the docs need sone SEO love.
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
I… I was today years old.
I honestly thought LibreOffice was some rebranded name. It’s been a while since I’ve used any of them.
