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That animated ad is a total turn-off.

I've used LibreOffice/OpenOffice/StarOffice for two decades now. It's OK, not great. At least it interoperates with Microsoft desktop formats now. Mostly.

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tpoacher 4 hours ago | parent [-]

LO is contantly updated and improved. The 2 decades observation isn't really useful. Would you compare today's MSO experience to MSO2000 on Windows Millenium?

I use LO exclusively and it's a joy to use. On the rare instances I'm forced to use MSO it feels only marginally better than google docs. YMMV

And, strictly speaking, the reason things break sometimes when switching from LO to MSO is because MSO is broken: LO follows the spec (both .odt and .docx) faithfully, which then breaks when MSO relies on undocumented features or outright bugs for the end-result (i.e. the "works best on Internet Explorer" legacy).

	▲	squarefoot an hour ago \| parent [-]
		> I use LO exclusively and it's a joy to use. Same here and at several other people who asked me for alternatives over the years. I installed LO (formerly also OO) both on Linux and Windows and they became productive almost immediately. However when I install it on other people PCs I always set the default save formats as Word/Excel/Powerpoint 97-2003 so that nobody will complain when they send files to other people who presumably will be running mostly MS Office.