Does LIbre Office 5 have lots of bugs on Ubuntu Linux? [closed]
I read that "There are masses of problems being reported with the combo of LO-5 & win-10." I upgraded to Libre Office 5.0.1 on Kubuntu 12.04 and 14.04. Suddenly there seems to be many problems. LO crashes quite often when it used to be rock solid.
So, is it also true that there are masses of problems with LO on Linux?
Here's one example I've experienced a lot: if I have done anything with Mail Merge, when I close one open document, LO crashes and all open documents are immediately closed. Recovery doesn't always work.
Another example is font display. Documents in Writer display very poorly now, with fonts looking improper. This never happened previously.
There are many other instances of crashing that I have not taken the time to reproduce carefully. The situation is that LO crashes a lot whereas it never crashed previously.
Many features don't work well, but these are new features to me, so I don't know if these are new bugs, old bugs or things I just haven't figured out yet.
I've been using LO (and OO) for about 8 years. But if Libre Office 5.0.x was my first exposure to LO, I don't think I would ever come back.
Like you, I've been using LibO Writer on Ubuntu (and Mint) for years. Upgrade to 5 brought one or two minor glitches, but one has been fixed (display of tab-type as you cycled in the ruler line) but the other is in bugzilla and getting a fix (it looks like: word/character count for non-ODT documents registers "0" until file is modified). Other than that: fine, pretty much. Fonts: is that "clear type" fonts (e.g., Cambria, Calibri, etc.) or any font? Stability has not been a problem for me.
@Mountain - could you confirm which fonts are the worst performing for you? There could well be related issues that aren't LibO in origin, but we would only know if we get some further detail. Thanks!
The Writer documents I'm working with mostly (but not exclusively) use Trebuchet MS. However, I have seen the same rendering problems in Calc with Arial.
The readability of all documents at all times has gone down with LO 5.0.x. But sometimes something "flips" and a document or spreadsheet will go from looking OK to looking like the font changed to a bold monospaced font. The change is not consistent across the entire document. I cannot reproduce it, so I don't know the steps.
That's a help - if it's Trebuchet and Arial, there really is a problem. These are fine for me. I only have issues with "Cleartype" fonts, but that's a known issue.
I'm not sure if this is relevant, but I'm running 3 monitors. My center monitor is a Dell U3011 (30" 2560x1600). I've had the same setup for years. Nothing else changed when I upgraded to LO 5.0.
More info. When I have several Calc and/or Writer documents open, upon closing one of them LO crashes. All documents then have to be recovered when I reopen LO. I cannot find any pattern to it.In my OP I thought it was Mail Merge related. Now I believe it is not. I cannot find the pattern, but the problem is very annoying.
This never happened before LO 5.0.x. My experience is that if you cannot give exact steps to reproduce a problem, filing a bug report is a waste of everyone's time.
I have now downgraded my main computer from LO 5 to LO 4.4.x and all these problems have gone away.
Hi Mountain. Yup. In a better-expressed nutshell, exactly what I said in my answer.
I use Calc a lot, in place of Excel, since version 3 and 2007, and there are innumerable irritating bugs which haven't changed and make Calc difficult to use. I've reported some of these. But it beats me that no-one else has. Perhaps LibreOffice Calc's users aren't too demanding.