I recently switched from Windows to Ubuntu. I have Libre Office installed and want to give this new OS and software every chance of working, but I’m frustrated at every turn. I have looked at a number of youtube films explaining how to do things, but the menus they mention are either not there or do not work as they say.
Here is one thing I want to do. I write many HTML files and need to edit them. In Windows, I always used NotePad, a simple no nonsense program that worked very well. I thought I’d try Libre Writer, but it opens the html file as a page not the source information. I do not want to change my filenames from *.html to *.txt to accomplish this. And I want it to be global, so that any html file, anywhere (I use a NAS for all my data files) will open in Libre Writer as plain text. Also I do not want any highlighting, no code colors. So far I tried a few things and have gotten nowhere. So I’m still editing my html stuff in Windows.
Checkout the libreoffice documentation..
Then in Linux you want to use nano, mousepad, geany, kate, maybe even bluefish, or code, etc. Depending on which desktop you are using, they may have their own simple editor. Do some searches at Ubuntu website, forums, and its’ repositories. Also visit your desktop’s website (gnome, kde, xfce, etc) to find the right tool for the job.