LibreOffice is preinstalled in Pop OS, and as someone who loves the idea of FOSS I want to use it, but inevitably I just use Google docs or Office Online. Is it really worth learning? Has anyone successfully incorporated it into your workflow?
I’ve been using it for years for all personal office suite uses.
Along with GIMP for photo editing
Same, I’ve used a lot of office suites over the years so they’re all the same to me. LO is free so I use it at home and store my files on Cryptomator+Dropbox.
Excited for Gimp 3.0, the dev snapshots are working well now but I’ll need the Resynthesizer plugin.
I use collabora, which is essentially an online webUI implementation of libreoffice that can integrate with nextcloud, which I self-host.
All the benefits of an online office suite, all on my own hardware.
Yes. I’ve been using it since the old OpenOffice days. It works well, it’s easy to learn, it’s well supported, and it’s free.
Used LIbreOffice throughout college. I use it when I need to, though I don’t use any office productivity apps beyond a spreadsheet these days. When I DO need something like that, I Just use the LibreOffice integrated into Nextcloud.
I prefer OnlyOffice over LibreOffice cause it seems to have better support for MS formats.
Yep, LibreOffice misses up with the format sometimes so I wouldn’t use it on documents that I’m gonna send to someone
Well, I have a license for MS Office from work that I have never actually installed, because Libre Office is just much simpler to deal with. I’m sure at some point I will need it, but since WFH started there has been no such time.
Honestly, I have no idea how people can stand MS Word. It’s a complete piece of shit that barely works. If you want it for a text editor, you will have a much better experience with any other suite. But Excel is good, and Power Point does that thing it does quite well (if that’s a good thing, it’s up to opinion). Those are harder to replace.
I used OpenOffice and then LibreOffice all the way through college. However in the past couple years I moved to a combination of Office 365 and VSCode because I used the OneDrive cloud storage which comes at a pretty solid discount.
I don’t enjoy using Google docs - but I seem to be an exception to the rule there. Most people seem to see no reason to have anything else.
same here! The whole Google suite is just so unbearably slow at the school i go to, but we’re all forced to use it.
I like Google slides, but I’m not a fan of the others.
I use on Windows, bc It has regex, a huge thing for me.
I use LibreOffice to fill out important documents and taxes. I don’t trust google, or myself for that matter, to hold that kind of data securely in the cloud without encryption.
I used to use it for all my office needs, then Google docs got really good!
I think owncloud/nextcloud use libreoffice code for their collaborative office suites behind the scenes.
They do, the actual document server is named collabora, and the editor suite is based on libreoffice.
I use it. It’s rare, because I tend to use emacs+org-mode for private documents, or one of various other formats for interchange, but when I need to work with Microsoft Word or Excel documents, I use it.
Also, abiword theoretically is a lighter-weight editor for RTF documents, but in past years, I’ve found it to be pretty unstable, so I tend to use LibreOffice to view RTF documents.
I use it, I also hate it with a passion. I also hate Microsoft Office, its a little better but not worth installing and registering.
Nowadays if I need to write something I use either plain text, Markdown or LaTeX depending on what I’m doing. For presentations I use LaTeX, Draw.io or Google Slides. For spreadsheets I haven’t found anything decent yet so I end up using Calc.
Anyways, the Google alternatives are decent to be honest, I just prefer to avoid Google, otherwise I would use Docs, Slides and whatever their spreadsheet app is called.
Yeah this is what happened to me. I use LibreOffice in the event that I need to work with Office documents, but if I’m writing something myself, I’m pretty much exclusively in Markdown. It’s just faster for my uses, and the files are nice and portable.
Lol I’m kind of the same. I LOATHE Office and I hate having to use LibreOffice. I have nothing against LibreOffice per say. I just feel every time I open an office suite for work which I do a lot, that it’s the least efficient way of doing things. Though obviously your average use wouldn’t get by with anything else.
I do appreciate Libre Calc. I like that it’s a true spreadsheet without trying to tack on a billion features like tables etc. I use it for csv files often.
I use it even in the once a month time I have to touch Windows, chief.
I used LibreOffice exclusively in college — it was a lifesaver for my broke ass, since most of my money went to beer and hobbies (DnD, home severs, guitars, more drinking…)
It got the job done, but I wasn’t doing a whole lot of writing fwiw. Once I got over the whole “save it using the correct format or your professors will fail you” hump, it was everything I needed and more.
Don’t do any writing that isn’t markdown now, and I write that in Vscode or Obsidian these days.
Those D&D books make Office look cheap, especially if you end up a forever DM!
Same here, taking a few classes again now and have been using it again. Still enjoy it!
I juggle between whatever office suite is installed at the time. I’ve found that they’re all pretty much the same. If you know one, the rest are virtually the same.
The tool for slides is nicer than PowerPoint 365 and Google slides. It allows you to set the spacing on text, for example.