Before Libre Office was Open Office.

I take comfort that we would not be without a local office suite for long.

SV_BubbleTime 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I’d love for someone to be able to take it from “yeah it mostly works for me” to “oh fuck you Microsoft, I’m going to move our entire company over to this”.

I’m not going to hold my breath.

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redeeman 2 hours ago | parent [-]

because thats not about quality, its about "i demand something thats 100% exactly the same as microsofts product, even in the places where its objectively crappier. I also wish it to track the microslop so that it consistently stays as shitty as microslop deems, so that I may never realize I use something else."

	▲	gus_massa an hour ago \| parent [-]
		> "so that I may never realize I use something else" The main reasons are: 1) ... so my muscle memory work. (In some editor Ctrl+Y is redo, in others no, I never remember in which editors, I hate when it doesn't work.) 2) ... so I can exchange files with coworkers, and they will see exactly what I wrote (I recently received an email with a draft and I complained about a missing ≥. It actually was there was the visor in Gmail was not showing it.)

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bityard 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

There is still Open Office: https://www.openoffice.org

	▲	johannes1234321 22 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Well, it exists but got one patch release (fixing 7 CVEs and little more) in 2025, no release in 2024, two patch releases in 2023. Not a really active project. Also most of the community moved on. Apache OOo is dumped by Oracle and since then didn't receive much love.