Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice
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Re: Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice
#2I guess Fedora users are supposed to use flatpak from now on. Between this and the recent VAAPI controversy Fedora starts to lose some of that shine that made it appealing for me for many years:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Disable-Bad-VA-API
I wonder why way smaller distributions are fine with maintaining LibreOffice, but Red Hat supposedly doesn't have enough resources to keep it going.
Re: Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice
#3I think most commenters on lwn are misunderstanding this gravely.
RHEL not supporting LibreOffice doesn't mean you can still install it, right? It just means RH won't offer support for it?
Also does not mean you must use Flatpak to use it, does it? Am I missing something?
If it does make sense business-wise, it's their call. I'm pretty sure they know their userbase and did the math.
I also prefer efforts put on Wayland improvements, much closer to the OS itself and relevant to several use cases.
Re: Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice
#4The Flatpak (Flathub) version works just fine and it is what I switched to using on Fedora for a while now, so I don't see an issue here. I'd rather the core OS would get more improvements.
Re: Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice
#5When IBM bought Red Hat this was the kind of thing I worried might happen: That Red Hat might stop supporting the Linux Desktop.
I have no idea how their announcement makes any sense. They want to improve workstation experience by... not offering an office application any more? Like, what do you even mean by workstation?
Re: Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice
#6I guess Fedora users are supposed to use flatpak from now on. Between this and the recent VAAPI controversy Fedora starts to lose some of that shine that made it appealing for me for many years: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Disable-Bad-VA-API I wonder why way smaller distributions are fine with maintaining LibreOffice, but Red Hat supposedly doesn't have enough resources to keep it going.
I think you’re confusing packaging and maintaining. Red Hat helps maintain the Linux port, as in actually paying people to keep it supporting Linux, vs just packaging it and keeping the package up to date.
Re: Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice
#7LibreOffice comes with its own support these days... RPMs are provided out of the box too. So it makes sense.
Re: Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice
#8I think most commenters on lwn are misunderstanding this gravely. RHEL not supporting LibreOffice doesn't mean you can still install it, right? It just means RH won't offer support for it? Also does not mean you must use Flatpak to use it, does it? Am I missing something? If it does make sense business-wise, it's their call. I'm pretty sure they know their userbase and did the math. I also prefer efforts put on Wayla…
> If it does not make sense business-wise, it's their call. I'm pretty sure they know their userbase and did the math.
This assumes companies don't make mistakes. They do. A lot.
And if users aren't allowed to voice concern then they will make many more mistakes.
Re: Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice
#9LibreOffice comes with its own support these days... RPMs are provided out of the box too. So it makes sense.
That’s not what support means.
Who can you call if you have a technical issue with LibreOffice? One possible answer used to be Red Hat if you had the entreprise version and a support contract.
Re: Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice
#10When IBM bought Red Hat this was the kind of thing I worried might happen: That Red Hat might stop supporting the Linux Desktop. I have no idea how their announcement makes any sense. They want to improve workstation experience by... not offering an office application any more? Like, what do you even mean by workstation?
They are pivoting the work they do for workstations away from applications to HDR etc.
That 'for' doesn't mean they are pivoting to Workstations.
Guess it's a bit ambiguous, but anyways so libre office won't be a package on RHEL that's no big issue so long as the RPM and flatpak work fine.