![]() The move from OpenOffice to LibreOffice was basically (And this is my personal opinion) because Oracle is simply a not so friendly open-source type company that since the moment they touched everything Sun had, it became to some degrees, unfriendly for the open source user (VirtualBox, MySQL, OpenOffice and Java to name a few). Now for my personal opinions over this based on experiences with both and since the creation of LibreOffice: Trying to work on OpenOffice, knowing the above points is leaving many of the things LibreOffice has done and working twice as much to implement some of them back to OpenOffice. ![]() LibreOffice had many features, updates and commits made that were much better than OpenOffice and it had a programming rhythm that was and is faster than the one OpenOffice has. When the Apache Foundation took over, it was already too late. Staying with LibreOffice gave some guarantee to all Distros that the next version would not magically change licence and try to make them pay for it. Many of the changes users have asked for years with OpenOffice were implemented in less than a year in LibreOffice (Many types of formats for example) LibreOffice Development is several times faster than OpenOffice which helps users and distros get better performance, stability and features ready for when a new distro version comes out. Go elsewhere.Assuming you read What is the difference between OpenOffice and the newly created LibreOffice? (I was going to mark it as duplicate but your question is more of a why Ubuntu and others still use LibreOffice) the differences right now and possibly for the future are: If you are trying just to rant about LO - this is not the place. Of course LO have got problems when you are saving your heavy formated document/presentation/database/workbook in M$ Office format but that's all really. I'm working with Libre Office more than 1 year now and I had never experienced such things. ![]() I'm now trying out SoftMaker if I like it, I'll buy the full version. Granted, "free is a very good price," but not when it leads to massive and regular workflow interruptions. So all of this mess with reinstalling and doing workarounds just makes no sense. If this is the best the linux world can offer-as thousands of people are going to be streaming off of their windowsXP boxes-then we a looking at a massive and lost opportunity to switch folks over to linux.Īnd I'm one of those people-formerly a Mac person, then Windows (including 7), who decided to try Linux because my favorite computer was running WindowsXP. The formatting interface is not at all intuitive. LibreOffice is really not ready for prime time-it locks up on the simplest documents (and freezes my computer). that is of course the main part of an office suite i use, apart from the spreadsheet package, and as long as it works for my data, I am OK with it and them: components of a suite.))ĪndyPandy wrote:I so agree. Possibly any RTF editor would be sufficient, such as wordpad (windows) or some equivalent.being of the opinion that most users including myself do not need too many special features: in fact all I really need from a text format program is some insert capability, some spell-checking, and a few minor format options (to highlight text) I usually switch whenever a previously or vendor supplied oss package is under new owneraship: an example might be mysql (owned by Oracle) or even Skype now owned by Microsoft.Īt the moment I use libreoffice and for me that is just fine I have no idea, if you find a version that seems to work best for you, that is the package to use (libreoffice or openOffice )
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