1 Jul
2018
1 Jul
'18
6:21 a.m.
Mike Bird wrote:
Unlike KDE 4 versus KDE 3 (or systemd versus sysvinit)
LibreOffice is
a good and compatible replacement for OpenOffice. Indeed, none of our
users reported any problems or complaints when we switched from
OpenOffice to LibreOffice. Thus there is little reason to maintain
OpenOffice and I do not foresee a long future for it.
I also recommend installing LibreOffice from your distro rather than
from LibreOffice upstream unless you need bleeding edge functionality.
I share the view of William Morder aka Bill. Couple of years ago (might be 5
or 10) I tried LibreOffice. It was not stable and it was messing up with my
documents - unpredictable when it will fail and/or I won't be able to
restore or continue where I left. The main reason to try LibreOffice was
that it would promise to be able to edit MS word documents - well not
really.
So since I prefer stability over functionality, I switched over to
OpenOffice and never had an issue with it. It might be that I try
LibreOffice once again though, but I have limited time and I found out that
you can't really work on MS document with those open source tools, so the
companies I work for offer office365 where the stupid thing is integrated
or provide a computer or virtual machine where I can work if needed.
In summary Libre was a disappointment and was flagged as unreliable.
regards