LibreOffice 24.2.1 Office Suite Is Out with More Than 100 Bug Fixes (9to5linux.com)
from petsoi@discuss.tchncs.de to linux@lemmy.ml on 29 Feb 2024 19:39
https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/11757353

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SuperSynthia@lemmy.world on 29 Feb 2024 19:44 collapse

That’s great to hear. It’s a nice little program suite for at home, and I hope one day it can compete against Google/Microsoft’s offerings

menemen@lemmy.world on 29 Feb 2024 20:39 next collapse

It can easily compete with Google. It is much better imo. Only thing Google does better is the document sharing. MS Office is a different thing.

ininewcrow@lemmy.ca on 29 Feb 2024 20:44 next collapse

For 90% of the public that is not attached to a major business, corporation or institution … Libreoffice is more than enough.

And even for small offices and small groups or companies, LibreOffice is more than enough.

The only difference comes when you have to set up a mass system with hundreds or thousands or systems and people to interconnect an office system do the big companies opt for Microsoft office.

Helix@feddit.de on 29 Feb 2024 21:13 next collapse

Sadly all of our huge customers use MS Office and we have to dogfeed ourselves with the whole MS 365 suite. That’s 70€ per month per user down the holes of Microsoft execs.

Pantherina@feddit.de on 29 Feb 2024 21:31 next collapse

They just need what Collabora and Onlyoffice do, but actually integrated into Libreoffice not some weird online suite.

flyos@jlai.lu on 01 Mar 2024 06:56 collapse

There’s a desktop edition of OnlyOffice FYI.

Pantherina@feddit.de on 01 Mar 2024 10:55 collapse

Do they have a Flatpak?

pH3ra@lemmy.ml on 01 Mar 2024 11:07 collapse

Yes, on Flathub.
They also provide a Snap and an Appimage

Pantherina@feddit.de on 01 Mar 2024 11:20 collapse

I will see if I switch then!

pH3ra@lemmy.ml on 01 Mar 2024 11:29 collapse

In my experience it works really well in conjunction with Nextcloud, I cannot recommend more

SuperSynthia@lemmy.world on 01 Mar 2024 00:22 next collapse

If it would scale to enterprise level that’s a game changer. It would lead to Linux just clobbering the pc market space.

I’m forced into Office suite at my work and I have to fight it.

jayandp@sh.itjust.works on 01 Mar 2024 04:21 collapse

The main issue I run into is that even when I use a standard format like ODF, sending a document to someone using a different office suite often leads to various formatting breaking. It’s to the point that if I know the person I’m sending the document to, isn’t going to be editing it, I send it as a PDF.

I felt deceived when Microsoft added ODF file support, only for formatting to still break when exporting/importing from another suite. What was the point if I’d get the same results as loading a DOCX in Libre Office?

spider@lemmy.nz on 01 Mar 2024 05:20 collapse

I felt deceived when Microsoft added ODF file support, only for formatting to still break when exporting/importing from another suite.

Given that it’s M$, I suspect this isn’t a bug, but a feature.

jayandp@sh.itjust.works on 01 Mar 2024 05:43 collapse

Probably, though I encounter the same issue with other office suites too.

Pantherina@feddit.de on 29 Feb 2024 21:31 next collapse

little

Lol.

520@kbin.social on 29 Feb 2024 21:59 collapse

I would say that LibreOffice could potentially be more important than just a competitor to Google/MS.

With Google's offering being cloud based and MS pushing the same way, in 10 years LO could be the main office suite that's fully available offline.

SuperSynthia@lemmy.world on 01 Mar 2024 00:19 collapse

That absolutely astounds me but your right. Especially crazy considering at any point something could happen to your internet then you’re fucked.