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> There’s just something lame about it It's even more lame when you're French. Joke aside, I agree with you, the "libre" suffix/prefix carries some undertones
by Galanwe 1y ago
> There’s just something lame about it
It's even more lame when you're French.
Joke aside, I agree with you, the "libre" suffix/prefix carries some undertones of "it's going to be old and ugly but open source".
- tpoacher 1y agoit's going to be old and ugly for now
- brewdad 1y agoSomeday it will be newly improved and uglier
- wongarsu 1y agoMy first association with -libre in product names is LibreOffice. And that has managed to look old and ugly for as long as I can remember, with little to no improvement
- bigfishrunning 1y agoIt was ugly when it was called StarOffice, and also ugly when it was called OpenOffice. So calling it LibreOffice should have been obvious from the start!
- bee_rider 1y agoLibreOffice did have some nice improvements over OpenOffice. Really, office suites are kind of a late-90’s concept anyway, so having UI that looks weird by modern standards is appropriate probably.
- tpoacher 1y agoodd that you say this, libreoffice is the first of those high quality products i had in mind. it looks clean, friendly, and everything just works. whenever i am forced to use msoffice it's a cringeworthy experience. is this opinion based on recent experiences of the libreoffice suite?