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> Also a lawyer here, I think the biggest hurdle is MS Word. MS word is the defacto IDE of the law world. We spend most of our time in Word. > The drafting of

> Also a lawyer here, I think the biggest hurdle is MS Word. MS word is the defacto IDE of the law world. We spend most of our time in Word. > The drafting of documents won't be a problem with libre office. You can send a PDF to the client. > But working with other lawyers/parties could be a challenge. I am not certain how Libreoffice could handle a 500 page memo being worked by 50 This is addressed in the article actually! They said LibreOffice has served them perfectly well.

ghaff 5y ago
He says it has worked for him so far--with only minor issues. Personally, in that situation, if I really didn't want to use Windows for everything (and I've barely used Windows for the past 10 years), I'd probably get a Windows system for running Word and any other necessary Windows software and have my computer system of choice for everything else. In the grand scheme of things, computers are cheap these days. (Or as someone else commented, run Windows in a VM. Though I might consider even that to be potentially unpredictable as a platform that my entire business essentially depended on.)
- n_decoded_legal 5y ago
  > He says it has worked for him so far--with only minor issues. I'd say the same about Word. Mostly fine, but some minor issues, usually linked with auto-numbering getting in a fluster, or deciding to turn all the numbering into black blocks. But I definitely prefer Word's flexibility for displaying tracked changes.
  - ghaff 5y ago
    I mostly use Google Docs these days and, in general, I'm a fan of how it's focused on the 90-95% use case. But every now and then I run into something it just can't do or that it does relatively poorly. (Revision tracking from multiple people in particular, complex section breaks of various kinds, doubtless other things.)
pseingatl 5y ago
Textmaker by Softmaker Office is a 100% Word-compatible Linux native word processor with mark-up. And much cheaper than Word. There's a Window version as well.

ghaff 5y ago

He says it has worked for him so far--with only minor issues. Personally, in that situation, if I really didn't want to use Windows for everything (and I've barely used Windows for the past 10 years), I'd probably get a Windows system for running Word and any other necessary Windows software and have my computer system of choice for everything else. In the grand scheme of things, computers are cheap these days. (Or as someone else commented, run Windows in a VM. Though I might consider even that to be potentially unpredictable as a platform that my entire business essentially depended on.)

n_decoded_legal 5y ago
> He says it has worked for him so far--with only minor issues. I'd say the same about Word. Mostly fine, but some minor issues, usually linked with auto-numbering getting in a fluster, or deciding to turn all the numbering into black blocks. But I definitely prefer Word's flexibility for displaying tracked changes.
- ghaff 5y ago
  I mostly use Google Docs these days and, in general, I'm a fan of how it's focused on the 90-95% use case. But every now and then I run into something it just can't do or that it does relatively poorly. (Revision tracking from multiple people in particular, complex section breaks of various kinds, doubtless other things.)

pseingatl 5y ago

Textmaker by Softmaker Office is a 100% Word-compatible Linux native word processor with mark-up. And much cheaper than Word. There's a Window version as well.