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This is an excellent opportunity to tell our friends and family: It's time to consider switching to --==[[ LIBRE OFFICE! ]]==-- because: 1. It's a very good

This is an excellent opportunity to tell our friends and family: It's time to consider switching to --==[[ LIBRE OFFICE! ]]==-- because: 1. It's a very good office suite that isn't subject to "fashionable remakes" and other Microsoft shenanigans. 2. over 100 million people use it - mostly on Windows and many on Linux and Mac. 3. No AI! And it certainly doesn't keep track of what you do, and it doesn't call home to tell anyone about you or share a copy of your private documents. 4. No logging into anything or managing licenses. 5. You can download and use it for free: www.libreoffice.org (and it's on Chocolatey and WinGet too I think, if you're in Windows-land) . But of course it helps a lot when people also donate. 7. It has good community support; and there are also options for paid support, training, transition and deployment if you're in a business or organization. 8. There are also written guides in several languages for those who like that format, and there are some video tutorials etc. and finally: 9. It is managed by a democratically-run public foundation with members from across the world. There are no large companies or governments pulling the strings or calling the shots.

PebblesHD 2y ago
It does suffer slightly from looking like it was developed in the 90s. The UI kit it uses by default looks very out of place on most modern platforms and despite their being other UIs available, most end users will look at the default and choose something else, likely office. They need to invest some time in modernising the human interface parts of the suite.
- einpoklum 2y ago
  Which Desktop environment are you looking at? The "UI kit" is different on different platforms (the idea is to use native widgets) If you mean the fact that it's not ribbony, with a lot of unused empty space between widgets and with mobile-phone-like aesthetic - the rejection of that style is intentional. Microsoft went that way, and hurt usability; LibreOffice has not. Although some argue emphatically that it's the way to go in order to attract new users. For those who like a more ribbon'y UI style - it's available as an option. On the menu, choose "View > User Interface..." TBH, that's not fully-developed and I don't like it much. One other aspect of modernization is that there is a dark mode, which has improved a lot over the past couple of years: https://itsfoss.com/libreoffice-dark-mode/ https://itsfoss.com/libreoffice-dark-mode/ but if you have specific suggestions/rants - UI/UX discussions are always ongoing, albeit slowly given the immense size of the project and the amount of dialogs and UI/UX aspects to be considered and improved. Try the "LibreOffice Design" channel on Telegram for example.

PebblesHD 2y ago

It does suffer slightly from looking like it was developed in the 90s. The UI kit it uses by default looks very out of place on most modern platforms and despite their being other UIs available, most end users will look at the default and choose something else, likely office. They need to invest some time in modernising the human interface parts of the suite.

einpoklum 2y ago
Which Desktop environment are you looking at? The "UI kit" is different on different platforms (the idea is to use native widgets) If you mean the fact that it's not ribbony, with a lot of unused empty space between widgets and with mobile-phone-like aesthetic - the rejection of that style is intentional. Microsoft went that way, and hurt usability; LibreOffice has not. Although some argue emphatically that it's the way to go in order to attract new users. For those who like a more ribbon'y UI style - it's available as an option. On the menu, choose "View > User Interface..." TBH, that's not fully-developed and I don't like it much. One other aspect of modernization is that there is a dark mode, which has improved a lot over the past couple of years: https://itsfoss.com/libreoffice-dark-mode/ https://itsfoss.com/libreoffice-dark-mode/ but if you have specific suggestions/rants - UI/UX discussions are always ongoing, albeit slowly given the immense size of the project and the amount of dialogs and UI/UX aspects to be considered and improved. Try the "LibreOffice Design" channel on Telegram for example.