I like LibreOffice because I don't have to sell my soul to write a letter or crunch some numbers in a table.
Nice and well done.
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I'd love to get these stickers, but i also love #LibreOffice. Why? Becsuse it can do stuff, I'm not able to do on my work computer running another well known office software.
1. QR-Codes: It's very convenient creating them directly in your document whitout having to rely on (sometimes shady) websites.
2. Use .svg files (and even being able to edit them in external software).
3. Autosave just works and recovering "lost" documents is almost always possible.
@libreoffice I'm genuinely happy to do this.
I love #LibreOffice, but how can I possibly articulate how MASSIVELY IMPORTANT it is that we are not entirely dependant on Microsoft and other tech companies for office software??
Not just individuals, but organisations, charities, businesses and governments *need* office software.
(And OpenOffice isn't updated enough :P)
I 💗 LibreOffice because it doesn't require me to login to a cloud service just to open the program on my own laptop!
@libreoffice I like LibreOffice because 1) it is intuitive to use, you don't have to read a manual to use basic functions; 2) it is trouble-free to use without Internet in a sandbox (firejail); 3) it can be extended with add-ons; 4) it can read proprietary formats, unfortunately sometimes necessary; 4) its range of functions allows you to have no disadvantages when using free software for word/table/presentation editing.
Yes, please don't forget that Sun gave us the original.
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I love LibreOffice because the interface is practical, usable and dependable.
It’s cross platform, for when I’m not on Linux.
The files are amazingly small.
It natively supports document encryption, using keys in my control.
It’s created with love, by people who care.
Thanks for all the hard work! 💖👌✅
I love LibreOffice because I feel I can get stuff done without having to work against the software. LibreOffice does what I want and stays out of the way otherwise, letting me focus on doing what *I* want.
That it's free of charge *and* natively uses standardized file formats is a very nice bonus, but I donate monthly to the Document Foundation precisely because LibreOffice is so useful to me. (This is a fact; *not* an implied request for preferential treatment. 🙂)
@muellerwhh That LibreOffice doesn't try to force me into using one particular cloud storage service is certainly one part of it. So's the fact that it doesn't bug me to use generative AI, or (at least feels like) actively hides features I use or helpful tips (like keyboard shortcuts). And how customizable it is. It does what's needed to do what I want and doesn't get in my way. That it *works* on my platform of choice in the first place helps, too. It's keyboard drivable. Etc. 🙂
@mkj @libreoffice My problem is that if you exchange often with people who are M$ only, then you might get problems in your PDFs. I have spent entire working days fixing stuff, like e.g. the handouts not containing the slides but only the remarks. Or wrong sizes of characters.
Because of this I am a locked-in user of M$ stuff, but for things where I have the choice, I prefer LibreOffice.
Microsoft really makes it ultra hard to avoid their cloud. They should get their fingers slapped.
@muellerwhh If a PDF generated by LibreOffice is malformed such that a standards-compliant PDF viewer displays it incorrectly, then that is legitimately a fixable bug in LibreOffice; and all software has bugs. If there is a reproducible case where a PDF generated by LibreOffice displays incorrectly in a widely used viewer, I suspect the LibreOffice developers would still love a test case even if LibreOffice is not technically at fault.
Neither of which changes my argument much. 🙂
@mkj @libreoffice Don't feel attacked.
No, I am in settings where people are modifying common slides. Not exchange of PDFs but adding some graphics into the slides, changing the layouts. It may be a tad uncool, if someone modifies your slides and all of the sudden your presentation crashes midway.
Hasn't happend to me in 10 years, but also due to the reason that I did not risk that to happen again.
It is known that M$ actually *wants* things to be difficult for other players.
@mkj @libreoffice Better yet, when LibreOffice _does_ get in your way, you still can configure it to never get in your way that way again ✨✨
Proprietary software on the other hand....
@bojidar_bg Strictly speaking, I think that's more about whose interests the software is made to serve rather than whether or not it's proprietary. The two *often do* overlap, so the comparison isn't entirely invalid; but it's perfectly possible for proprietary software to be designed and implemented to serve the user's interests.
One can certainly always argue about the default settings, but even Clippy *did* have an off switch. 🙂
@mkj I'm taking the maximal possible meaning of "can" here - free/opensource software allows you to modify it, hence if you want it to do something, you can make it do that, even if no one made an option for it and you end up having to recompile everything. 🥲
But yes, you are right, configurability and freedom are not the same even if they overlap (:
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