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> I'm curious if anyone sees LibreOffice gaining any traction in a professional setting. Here, also nope. There are GDocs users, and then MS Office users (ther
by zinekeller 6y ago
> I'm curious if anyone sees LibreOffice gaining any traction in a professional setting.
Here, also nope. There are GDocs users, and then MS Office users (there is a tendency that GDocs users here are using the office suite for its relative ease of use while MS Office users do tend to use the bits that are relevant to their needs (for example, Excel automation and advanced formatting found in Word which is good enough to not justify spending more in InDesign and similar applications).
We have trialled LibreOffice before, but the results were dismal: even though LibreOffice (to its advantage) approaches Microsoft compatibility, we still experienced some minor bugs (were reported and subsequently fixed) and missing features (in the sense that PowerBI and others were providing, plus real-time collaboration which Microsoft has a decent solution) means that even considering and removing training costs from the computation, it would not justify changing from Microsoft Office (or even GDocs) to LibreOffice for us. Google has eaten the basics and Microsoft has eaten the advanced users (and R/Py/Julia for even more advanced users), so to speak.