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> what's the issue with just running LibreOffice on your computer The key advantage to Google Docs, an otherwise ordinary if not fairly lightweight word processer, is the ease of sharing (even if only with yourself on multiple devices) and collaborating with others. I've never heard of LibreOffice online, but depending how well it does those things, it might or might not be viable. As a word processor alone, Google D…
Dropbox does file sharing better than anybody, I think. Share with yourself and others. Pay a small fee for a better product and know it they have an incentive to please you. You can use any software products when sharing with Dropbox. I have been happy with it for many years and have never had any problems, knock on wood.
You can easily have three people editing the same paragraph in google docs; whether libreoffice online is a viable alternative depends on how it handles that.