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I agree in the case of the Windows/OS X environment, where brand awareness of LibreOffice is low, but in the Linux world... my distribution (Debian) doesn't eve
by ajdlinux 10y ago
I agree in the case of the Windows/OS X environment, where brand awareness of LibreOffice is low, but in the Linux world... my distribution (Debian) doesn't even package OpenOffice, and I don't know any Linux user who uses OOo.
- chengiz 10y agoHere's one. Never thought it necessary to change. OO works just fine.
- fosco 10y agoditto
- dorfsmay 10y agoWasn't OpenOffice own by Sunacle at some point? I think that's when a lot of users moves to LibreOffice.
- umanwizard 10y agoLibreOffice is original OO, in terms of continuity of development, more so than AOO is.
- keithpeter 10y agoAnd another one to some extent: oOo uses its own font rendering, the LO team (I gather) moved over to using libraries (harfbuzz) available in host OS for font rendering. I seem to have better results on former under some circumstances. I have not had any round-trip editing problems flitting between the two under Linuxen of various kinds.
- chengiz 10y agoI didnt know this but at a more general level I am reluctant to "upgrade" what's already working fine due to this very fiddling with new stuff which is a common failing of the FOSS model in my experience (people wanting to add shiny things instead of making existing stuff better - Firefox, GNOME etc). This is one of the main reasons I did not migrate to LO.
- jbicha 10y agoAre you using a distro from 2010? Because I believe most of the major Linux distros include LIbreOffice as part of the default install.
- chengiz 10y agoI just checked - the latest I use is centos 7.1 which does have libreoffice already installed, however my daily machine is older and I had to install OO manually there.
- mindcrime 10y agoand I don't know any Linux user who uses OOo. Pleased to meet you. Now you know at least one.