https://9to5linux.com/libreoffice-24-2-2-is-now-available-for-download-with-more-than-70-bug-fixes
LibreOffice 24.2.2 is now available for download as the second point release to the LibreOffice 24.2 office suite fixing more than 70 bugs.
I was astonished to find the other day that LibreOffice has no problem opening ClarisWorks files. That is an ancient Mac format that even Apple's Pages has long since abandoned.
What's wrong with the 90s UX? It lets you do your work without being intrusive or annoying, so what's wrong with it?
Sorry but a word processor that doesn't trigger a 9 second laggy animation with every button press is just simply unusable
the tabbed UI is way better, much easier to find stuff if you havent already memorized it.
i know libreoffice has it but it should 100% be the default instead of the ancient paradigm of just throwing a million unorganized buttons in there and hoping you remember where everything is.
90s UIs are dying for a good reason.
not really, people just wanna use it for the work they are using that software for, not navigating a bad ui
But people in the 90s were doing their work just fine, with that same UX paradigm. What's the difference now?
Just to be clear, I'm not saying that software's UI and UX doesn't need to evolve. But it bothers me that a perfectly usable UI gets criticized only because it's "old" and doesn't look "modern" (tf is a "modern UI", btw?).
the difference is that we want guis to be better than they were. yes you can still use a 90s ui.
im not criticizing it because its "old". i think i gave a pretty good reason in my OP.
You can make it look however you want.
For me I've been using it for a long while now so the default layout feels right.
I love LibreOffice. Often when it's mentioned I've seen people with the opposite sentiment, but it never caused me any trouble and I really enjoy the small tabs option for the interface.
Microsoft Office has once decided to take my locally created file, shove it somewhere in OneDrive, then revert it to the state it was 24 hours prior - I couldn't recover the newer version. Guess which software never deleted my files? LibreOffice.
I have had the exact same experience with Office 365. It overwrote my local copy with an older version from cloud. My finished version was nowhere to be found. Took me half the night to create the doc again.
I always save MS docs under multiple file names now to defend against this. It is a hassle though. I also use LibreOffice for personal stuff, largely for this reason.
Libreoffice is so reliable. I've never had a real issue with it. I like that in this increasingly internet-always-on world I can count on Linux applications to just work whenever I please.
OnlyOffice is the main alternative to Libre these days.
I personally prefer it because offers better compatibility with the Microsoft 365 documents I need for work.
It saddens me that the best to have compatibility is to never touch MS Office. They are the largest player by far. Subtly fucking up or deviating from open document standards will always be seen as "well, the issue is non MS office".
Did LO discontinue distribution via torrent?
Edit: torrents are now up. Does it always take a day?