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> and a UI that is essentially unchanged since Office 95 How is that a drawback? That's a massive plus. The interface changes that we have seen in Office have

> and a UI that is essentially unchanged since Office 95 How is that a drawback? That's a massive plus. The interface changes that we have seen in Office have been pointless time-consuming travesties with no real purpose but to make it look like the software is completely new. No productivity increases whatsoever. The LO interface hasn't changed since Office 95 because that's when it's peaked. The tasks are the same and the human that do them are the same, and so the interface (if it is already at its best version) should also stay the same. This a great advantage of the open source office suites, not a drawback.

kunai 7y ago
In some regards, yes, but it's more than the structure of the UI. The menu-based interface should be perfectly suited to any task you want to accomplish, as it is in many other apps, but use LibreOffice for any amount of time and you begin to find the UI completely lacks any sort of consistency and tasks you'd expect to find under a certain hierarchy are not there, instead in a completely separate menu or toolbar that has nothing to do with it. This is a problem with MSFT products as well, but to a lesser extent. In addition, decades-old bugs have not been fixed. It's a showstopper.