Matt BuryNov 28

I work in education & I use & recommend #LibreOffice to my students:

No licence fees (great for students on a tight budget),

Forward & backward compatibility with files (so you don't lose access to your own & others' work),

UX that just lets you get on with work/study (no pop-ups, ads, nag-ware),

Really useful plugins, e.g. Zotero connector,

& just a pleasure to use! 🤓

Show threadGuitarsophistDec 8
@matbury LibreOffice is great, but I bet most of your students use Google Docs anyway. That is what they are used to.
Show threadJason123santaDec 8
@jredlund @matbury Yeah I went back to google docs after I forgot to save once in OnlyOffice and lost my progress
Show threadMatt BuryDec 8

@jason123santa @jredlund I use GDocs for shared, collaborative docs; most orgs don't support Collabora yet but they will when the EU starts clawing back their digital sovereignty.

However, I find GDocs are really slow, buggy, clunky, & has limited features compared to LibreOffice.

I do a lot of writing so that's important to me.

Show threadMatt Bury
@jason123santa @jredlund BTW, the European Union is waking up to the issue of digital sovereignty; They're already calculating the one-way cash flows to US big tech, digital dependence on their services, & Washington's exploitation of the vulnerability for economic & political ends. The "digital colonisation" frame isn't hyperbole. See: https://matbury.com/wordpress/index.php/2025/11/01/digital-sovereignty-or-digital-colony-a-wake-up-call-for-europe/
Digital sovereignty or digital colony? A wake-up call for Europe – Matt Bury

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