I used to think LibreOffice was too far behind the times to be relevant, but now I see a big new use case for people wanting to avoid LLM integrations/data exfiltration. I wish them much success!
LibreOffice 26.8 Released with Many Nice Improvements
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Re: LibreOffice 26.8 Released with Many Nice Improvements
#12This is such an important project that I think I will setup a recurring monthly donation. I mostly use Calc and I’ve held back donating because honestly it is not that good (irrational, I know). Specially if you’re an excel power-ish user. But lately it has been satisfying all my personal spreadsheet needs. Even though it has major pain points. I’ve tried every other spreadsheet app in Linux and honestly they all suc…
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Re: LibreOffice 26.8 Released with Many Nice Improvements
#13This is such an important project that I think I will setup a recurring monthly donation. I mostly use Calc and I’ve held back donating because honestly it is not that good (irrational, I know). Specially if you’re an excel power-ish user. But lately it has been satisfying all my personal spreadsheet needs. Even though it has major pain points. I’ve tried every other spreadsheet app in Linux and honestly they all suc…
What are the pain points?
Off the top of my head:
* UX/UI issues. For example, in dark mode I can barely see some icons. This is minor.
* Laggy scrolling. If your mouse scrolls too fast the spreadsheet doesn’t go as fast. * Buggy automatic range detection. If you add more rows at the end of a dataset the auto filter won’t detect those new records even after reset.
* Pivot table feature parity. Calculated fields specifically (apparently this release fixes it)
* Dynamic arrays and tables
Re: LibreOffice 26.8 Released with Many Nice Improvements
#14Has anyone tested this release on macOS yet? I'm particularly interested in whether the UI improvements and spreadsheet performance feel noticeably better on Mac compared with the previous release.
Re: LibreOffice 26.8 Released with Many Nice Improvements
#15This is such an important project that I think I will setup a recurring monthly donation. I mostly use Calc and I’ve held back donating because honestly it is not that good (irrational, I know). Specially if you’re an excel power-ish user. But lately it has been satisfying all my personal spreadsheet needs. Even though it has major pain points. I’ve tried every other spreadsheet app in Linux and honestly they all suc…
What are the pain points?
The interface was designed at least 20 years ago and hasn't kept up. They've been gluing on elements of newer UIs but keeping the old around. You can keep an Office 2003 style menu but also have an Office 2007+ ribbon to very quickly make it an unintelligble mess. Other contemporary Office suites like OnlyOffice handled things so much better by comparison.
Smaller elements such as just trying to do something where you knew where it was in Word versus LibreOffice is also a convoluted mess. PivotTables for example in Calc are almost complete nonsense.
Re: LibreOffice 26.8 Released with Many Nice Improvements
#16This is such an important project that I think I will setup a recurring monthly donation. I mostly use Calc and I’ve held back donating because honestly it is not that good (irrational, I know). Specially if you’re an excel power-ish user. But lately it has been satisfying all my personal spreadsheet needs. Even though it has major pain points. I’ve tried every other spreadsheet app in Linux and honestly they all suc…
> This is such an important project that I think I will setup a recurring monthly donation.
ACLU, EFF, LibreOffice... Anyone have more suggestions for general purpose cyber-liberties?