Not the gp (and not IT/Tech based) but I have OpenOffice available because... 1) editing documents I wrote some time ago. There was a time some months ago when

Not the gp (and not IT/Tech based) but I have OpenOffice available because... 1) editing documents I wrote some time ago. There was a time some months ago when LO would warn you when opening an older oOo doc about changes in the format. I saw this with drawings and Impress files. (I need to see if this still happens with latest LO). 2) one of my employers has oOo on their standard desktop image alongside MS Word and all. So I want the same as them for their documents 3) I know the menus and the little UI glitches well in oOo having used it since StarOffice days. LO is (entirely reasonably) refactoring stuff and therefore changing the ways some features work (drawing tools I recollect) 4) gives the impression of running snappier on an ancient laptop that I use. LO does seem to need a full DE (e.g. Gnome/KDE/xfce) ...if oOo life support was switched off, I'd shrug, move all the documents over to LO, and move on I suppose.