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LibreOffice 7.3

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Re: LibreOffice 7.3

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Post by BiteCode_dev »

vcgnjxfc444 wrote: post #46
BiteCode_dev wrote: post #43

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Document recovery will still lose a couple of minutes of work, or sometimes tells you your files is corrupted infortunatly. But even without that, it's more about your workflow being turned sub optimal that hurts. When I open VSCode, Inkscape or Thunderbird, I don't have to think about loosing my data. That makes things smoother :)

Sure. I guess im just old enough to remember the 1990s Microsoft Office shitshow.

Oh, I'm with you on this one. So many scars, from so many different shapes of blades.

That's why I'm still using LO and not MSO, despite the fact it's now more stable.

Re: LibreOffice 7.3

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Post by jjice »

LO is fantastic free software. The fact we even have an office suite that isn't controlled by MS or Google or another big player is great for users. My only gripes with LO are that the UI feels dated sometimes (I think they're working on this, if I recall), but that's a shallow take from me. I don't often use anything aside from small spreadsheets and text documents for college essays, so I've never noticed a limitation.

Re: LibreOffice 7.3

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Post by wintermutestwin »

zahma wrote: post #28

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.

I'm using the previous version on Apple silicon. It seems to have no more problems than it did on my Intel based Mac.

Re: LibreOffice 7.3

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Post by pdenton »

jjice wrote: post #53

LO is fantastic free software. The fact we even have an office suite that isn't controlled by MS or Google or another big player is great for users. My only gripes with LO are that the UI feels dated sometimes (I think they're working on this, if I recall), but that's a shallow take from me. I don't often use anything aside from small spreadsheets and text documents for college essays, so I've never noticed a limitat…

I've been using LibreOffice since StarOffice 5.2 (which had its own taskbar).

It really is amazing. The best trick in Writer is to use the "Styles" sidebar and apply document-wide styles to the document like you would in CSS. This makes layout in large documents a breeze.

If you don't like the UI, there's "View > User Interface..." where you get to choose between 7 different UI layouts.

Re: LibreOffice 7.3

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Post by gglitch »

BiteCode_dev wrote: post #26
unixhero wrote: post #21

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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…

I'm on Fedora 34 and LO kept crashing on me as well, sometimes seconds after I opened the application. I discovered that the version I had pre-installed with my OS was some clever application delivery format (Flatpak? I don't remember). I uninstalled this and reinstalled it from dnf, and it has been immaculately stable since. Not a a single crash or issue.

Re: LibreOffice 7.3

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Post by StevePerkins »

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!

Can you talk more about your typical use cases? Are you working with huge spreadsheets containing a lot of formula? Word processing documents with a lot of complex embedded content?

I have been using OpenOffice or LibreOffice for two decades now, on Windows, MacOS, and Linux, and I don't think I've had a single crash or freeze. Ever.

Re: LibreOffice 7.3

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Post by ceroxylon »

zahma wrote: post #28

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.

I use LO on a 2012 Mac mini (Mojave) and 2020 M1 Air (Monterey), no issues on either machine.

Re: LibreOffice 7.3

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Post by unixhero »

StevePerkins wrote: post #57
unixhero wrote: post #21

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

Can you talk more about your typical use cases? Are you working with huge spreadsheets containing a lot of formula? Word processing documents with a lot of complex embedded content? I have been using OpenOffice or LibreOffice for two decades now, on Windows, MacOS, and Linux, and I don't think I've had a single crash or freeze. Ever.

Large datasets typically for manual transformations before automating it with some python solution. Works exceptionally for massive CSC datasets for instance.

Some financial models, but not often. I am also a massive Excel fan, and do not aim to replace it.

Writing simple documentation and letters with TOC and macros in header footer.

Re: LibreOffice 7.3

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Post by champagnois »

LO has a lot of room for improvement. I am confident it will improve. I use it in a way that is pretty incredible and goes beyond the uses people are discussing on HN.

I have watched developers of the project discuss what they are working on and seen their various presentations on things they've improved over the years. Some of the flaws cause all sorts of performance issues that have recently been fixed. It will get better and better with each passing year so long as they continue to receive funding.

LO is one of the best opensource projects in my opinion.

It is unfortunate that FOSS graphic design software (outside of blender) is no where near my opinionated standards. Just imagine if the Affinity designer / publisher software was on linux or became opensourced due to some legal issue. What a world that would be.

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