I still occasionally slip on that myself. It's the first non-Microsoft office suite I used and it's burned into my memory.
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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.
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.
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.
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 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” ♎️⚖️
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At risk of going of topic, is this a Millennial meme?
Like, I really hope younger folks have seen this.
Ah, not it's again!
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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...
LibreOffice may not be the prettiest or the most stable, but dammit, it gets the job done
OnlyOffice is good too if you want a more modern interface.
is that like onlyfans but like linkedin?
Sure. Whatever helps you sleep at night.
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LibreOffice's UI is fine on Linux, on Windows not so much. OnlyOffice is a good alternative for Windows
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I'm trying to tell everyone LibreOffice, but OpenOffice has all the hits on search when people look for an alternative to Microsoft Office
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Whats funny is the people mentioning open office then saying libre office is not up to snuff and when they don't seem to realize the difference you know they have not used it in awhile. I mean like over a decade likely if your mentioning open 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
Oh, wow. TIL https://www.openoffice.org/
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 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.
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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.
It's not. Installed and tried last month. A bug that's older that many people here with Fullscreen is still present.
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
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.
Only office is basically the same interface again, all cloning MS-office 2007-2010.
Bleach.
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I am still more inclined to follow the "old Linux nerds rulebook" and keep recommending to learn LaTex ;-)
LyX and LaTeX and you can really impress your lecturer with magnificent postscript documents...at least you could...
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