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1) No Windows release afaik. But please correct me if I am wrong -- I don't see a Win download on their page from a quick look on my phone. 2) I did use it on

1) No Windows release afaik. But please correct me if I am wrong -- I don't see a Win download on their page from a quick look on my phone. 2) I did use it on Ubuntu sometime in college (around 2016 for class) and I just didn't like the feel of Libre. OpenOffice still had a lot of feature parity with Excel without buying Excel, so I got that instead.

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themitigating 4y ago
They've had Windows builds for as long I can remember. https://www.libreoffice.org/donate/dl/win-x86_64/7.3.4/en-US/LibreOffice_7.3.4_Win_x64.msi https://www.libreoffice.org/donate/dl/win-x86_64/7.3.4/en-US...
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mrnotcrazy 4y ago
There should be a windows release, its on the downloads page.
jjulius 4y ago
>1) No Windows release afaik. But please correct me if I am wrong -- I don't see a Win download on their page from a quick look on my phone. It's been available for Windows for years. The first option on the drop-down menus says "Windows (64-bit)"[0]. 90% of their 10 million worldwide users in 2011 were on Windows machines[1]. [0]https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/ https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/ [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice#Users_and_deployments https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice#Users_and_deployme...
Karellen 4y ago
> I don't see a Win download on their page On the download page, just above the "Download" button, there is a dropdown to select the installer. There should be "Windows (32-bit)" and "Windows (64-bit)" there along with the Linux and MacOS installers. https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/ https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/
lolinder 4y ago
Others have already noted that the windows release is easily findable, so instead I will ask: what features are missing from LibreOffice that OpenOffice has? The former is a fork of the latter, and LibreOffice has undergone extensive further development where OpenOffice has stagnated.
- oneepic 4y ago
  After checking this thread, I downloaded Libre on Windows and played around with it a little, to refresh my memory. My main use case is just working with some personal spreadsheets in Calc, no complicated work stuff. I wouldn't say features are missing, if anything it sounds like Libre is way more fleshed out than OpenOffice. That said, I still prefer the (relatively) legacy UI in Open Calc than the slightly more modern UI in Libre Calc, just a personal preference. It doesn't seem that much more advanced, and after all these years an ODS spreadsheet still looks like a spreadsheet. Other people noted the security posture of Libre though, which is a great point.
  - jancsika 4y ago
    Just wanted to chime in that your reasoning here is 100% valid. I'd also be curious about something: suppose you used LibreOffice for a week or so for working on your personal spreadsheets. What percentage of your work time would you waste either searching for the new location for the old command, or learning the new command that maps to the old one? I'd love to read a case study where someone has documented this with a UI change in FOSS.
    - oneepic 4y ago
      For me personally? 0%. I just do simple copy/paste, scatter plot, sort asc/desc... not a heavy user of hotkeys. I had some trouble finding the Chart button at first since the icon's different, but that was the only issue.

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themitigating 4y ago

They've had Windows builds for as long I can remember. https://www.libreoffice.org/donate/dl/win-x86_64/7.3.4/en-US/LibreOffice_7.3.4_Win_x64.msi https://www.libreoffice.org/donate/dl/win-x86_64/7.3.4/en-US...

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mrnotcrazy 4y ago

There should be a windows release, its on the downloads page.

jjulius 4y ago

>1) No Windows release afaik. But please correct me if I am wrong -- I don't see a Win download on their page from a quick look on my phone. It's been available for Windows for years. The first option on the drop-down menus says "Windows (64-bit)"[0]. 90% of their 10 million worldwide users in 2011 were on Windows machines[1]. [0]https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/ https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/ [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice#Users_and_deployments https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice#Users_and_deployme...

Karellen 4y ago

> I don't see a Win download on their page On the download page, just above the "Download" button, there is a dropdown to select the installer. There should be "Windows (32-bit)" and "Windows (64-bit)" there along with the Linux and MacOS installers. https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/ https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/

lolinder 4y ago

Others have already noted that the windows release is easily findable, so instead I will ask: what features are missing from LibreOffice that OpenOffice has? The former is a fork of the latter, and LibreOffice has undergone extensive further development where OpenOffice has stagnated.

oneepic 4y ago
After checking this thread, I downloaded Libre on Windows and played around with it a little, to refresh my memory. My main use case is just working with some personal spreadsheets in Calc, no complicated work stuff. I wouldn't say features are missing, if anything it sounds like Libre is way more fleshed out than OpenOffice. That said, I still prefer the (relatively) legacy UI in Open Calc than the slightly more modern UI in Libre Calc, just a personal preference. It doesn't seem that much more advanced, and after all these years an ODS spreadsheet still looks like a spreadsheet. Other people noted the security posture of Libre though, which is a great point.
- jancsika 4y ago
  Just wanted to chime in that your reasoning here is 100% valid. I'd also be curious about something: suppose you used LibreOffice for a week or so for working on your personal spreadsheets. What percentage of your work time would you waste either searching for the new location for the old command, or learning the new command that maps to the old one? I'd love to read a case study where someone has documented this with a UI change in FOSS.
  - oneepic 4y ago
    For me personally? 0%. I just do simple copy/paste, scatter plot, sort asc/desc... not a heavy user of hotkeys. I had some trouble finding the Chart button at first since the icon's different, but that was the only issue.