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LibreOffice 7.3

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Re: LibreOffice 7.3

#21

Post by unixhero »

sharikous wrote: post #4

I find LO to be very buggy and unintuitive in its UI. Equations are a pain, it forgets styling options, etc.. But as a user who uses it completely independently of MS Office, just for my documents, the peace of mind I have knowing I am using a powerful multiplatform open source software which won't betray me is priceless. I know my documents are safe and I can move between OSes at my will. This kind of freedom is ess…

Strange, I never encounter any bugs. I am on Windows in corporate land and Linux at home, all good!

Re: LibreOffice 7.3

#22

Post by paulryanrogers »

rbut wrote: post #3

Since moving to Ubuntu from Mac, I use LibreOffice daily for loading large XLS documents from clients. I might have to drop to a VM with Excel maybe 1-2% of the time, but the rest of the time LibreOffice is amazing. Thank you to the LibreOffice team for their continued efforts towards Office compatibility.

Have you tried Excel on Wine? It may run faster there, if you're not also relying on the VM for added security

Re: LibreOffice 7.3

#23

Post by agilob »

rbut wrote: post #12
sharikous wrote: post #4

I find LO to be very buggy and unintuitive in its UI. Equations are a pain, it forgets styling options, etc.. But as a user who uses it completely independently of MS Office, just for my documents, the peace of mind I have knowing I am using a powerful multiplatform open source software which won't betray me is priceless. I know my documents are safe and I can move between OSes at my will. This kind of freedom is ess…

There are multiple UI options to choose from. Have you tried them all?

UI options or themes?

Re: LibreOffice 7.3

#25

Post by glenstein »

SloopJon wrote: post #16

On Windows, the LibreOffice installer claimed that Firefox was using files that needed to be updated. This Reddit thread has some background on why that is: https://www.reddit.com/r/libreoffice/comments/aoqmvr/libreof... In short, you can probably ignore it and continue.

Is that still happening in 7.3?

Re: LibreOffice 7.3

#26

Post by BiteCode_dev »

unixhero wrote: post #21
sharikous wrote: post #4

I find LO to be very buggy and unintuitive in its UI. Equations are a pain, it forgets styling options, etc.. But as a user who uses it completely independently of MS Office, just for my documents, the peace of mind I have knowing I am using a powerful multiplatform open source software which won't betray me is priceless. I know my documents are safe and I can move between OSes at my will. This kind of freedom is ess…

Strange, I never encounter any bugs. I am on Windows in corporate land and Linux at home, all good!

I don't even use LO that much, and I'm panic saving in cycle every time I do because it crashes of me so often. Hell, it crashed on me this week, on a 5 pages doc with images, text, one table and a few titles. Nothing fancy.

I keep reading people saying it's stable for them, but I've was using it already when it was called OOo, before we had docx support, before docx even existed.

And it always has been this buggy.

I donate to the project, I report bugs, I keep advising people to use it.

But still, either I'm incredibly unlucky, or people are just ignoring all the crashes and became blind to them.

Which is a phenomenon I'm seeing a lot in the FOSS world: power users just don't see the bugs anymore because they work around them to easily and effortlessly, almost automatically. It doesn't help getting the software to a better state, nor does it inspire confidence to the new comers we oversell stability to.

So really, really, like the last 10 times you used LO, are you sure there was no problem at all?

Re: LibreOffice 7.3

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Post by n8cpdx »

agilob wrote: post #23
rbut wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are multiple UI options to choose from. Have you tried them all?

UI options or themes?

Both, which I think is part of the problem. They’re splitting engineering effort between Office 2003 style, Office 2007 (ish) style, and Office Online style UIs. They probably have less engineering resources than Microsoft Office and it shows.

Re: LibreOffice 7.3

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Post by zahma »

Has anyone with Apple silicon given this a shot? I notice with this release they’re offering native support. I’m planning to give it a spin but I’m curious what others have noticed in converting from MS.

Re: LibreOffice 7.3

#29

Post by lightwords »

Trying it for the first time in 3 years and it doesn't work on Mac OSX intel. Everything is huge and the the cursor hitpoint is off by 150-200px so you have to click above everything. Is anyone testing this software on the Apple hardware? Bizarre that a clean install on a 2 year old computer causes such issues.

Re: LibreOffice 7.3

#30

Post by jl6 »

I love that Libreoffice exists and I use it semi-regularly, but oh boy is its UI the canonical example of paper cuts.
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