Most stable version for Linux

[aristocompasso]

Hello to the community,

I’ve recently been drawn back to LibreOffice after having used, many years ago, OOo… and having a lot of pain in the everywhere with it.

I use it with Debian and Neon and I was wondering which packaging format would be the most stable, because the snap version I have installed crashed on me a couple of hours ago.

• the distribution repository
• .deb install
• appimage
• snap
• flatpak

As a side question, which one would be the best compromise between speed and stability?

All the best!

[gabix]

If you need stability, use Apache OpenOffice, if you need features, use LibreOffice. I don’t see any difference between builds installable from repos and builds from the official site. And I see no reason in installing anything but old good RPMs. However, my distro is openSUSE.

[RGB-es]

Just use whatever version is in the official repositories of your distro: don’t use the official builds nor snaps nor flatpaks nor anything else than good old official repositories and distro specific package managers.

[aristocompasso]

Just use whatever version is in the official repositories of your distro

I read somewhere that appimage, snap, flatpak were likely more stable due to bundling the most adequate versions of dependencies, but for some reason I find them more unstable; moreover, one thing is granted, these sandboxed versions are way slower, especially noticeable when saving.

I installed from PPA, so let’s see how it goes.

All the best.