Good bye LibreOffice

[Mark_Daniels]

I found LibreOffice sluggish and lacking many useful features only available in Office 365.

When I recently saw an ad from a reputable news publisher/media site for Office 365 with a lifetime subscription (installed on your PC) for a one time discounted price of $50, I jumped on it. No more sluggishness, no more clumsy features like formatting of numbers etc. that I experienced with LibreOffice. I also can ditch eM Client as my mail reader. I can now use Outlook.

While LibreOffice certainly has it’s advantages, I found for me the workaround was to use MS Office via OneDrive the workaround. No heavy software, no sluggishness etc.

[erAck]

Good luck, bye bye.

[Mark_Daniels]

Thank you!

[Zizi64]

$50 for THIS year. And what about the next year???

[mikekaganski]

@Zizi64

$50 for THIS year. And what about the next year?

This only tells how frustrated the user is, and how important the move is for them. For others, the price could be high or low, nothing to discuss. (And I read the “lifetime subscription for a one time price” as not describing a yearly fee.)

In general, indeed, the post praising another product is off-topic here, but it tells something about UX for some. Unfortunately, people tend to have incorrect expectations, confuse “intuition” and experience, have hard-to-change habits, that’s life.

[EarnestAl]

Funny really. I paid full price for office 2019 for when I need compatibility but I normally use LibreOffice Writer because it can do stuff that Word just can’t do. Styles, tables with complex formatting, fine tuning of export to pdf, etc.

I’m not sure that Word’s numbering is entirely wonderful, especially from the language it occasionally produces from my partner who uses MS Office exclusively.

It is possible to have both suites on one computer.

[torreone]

Apart from that for those who use linux office it is not available, unless something has changed that I am not aware of
But I remember that office as well as paid has always been very invasive for the operating system, which is not the case with libreoffice which is available in the portable version under windows.
In addition, Libreoffice is continuously growing in terms of functionality, flexibility and efficiency.
I am very happy to continue investing in LO after being among the first, 25 years ago, to invest heavily in office for a few years, also at the level of visual basic for application.
Never again