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I work on a mac, but I have Linux at home. I've started using LibreOffice at home and I'm surprised at how snappier it is compared to Word. Exported PDFs are e

I work on a mac, but I have Linux at home. I've started using LibreOffice at home and I'm surprised at how snappier it is compared to Word. Exported PDFs are even lighter that the ones Word do.

underlipton 1y ago
Backup important docs to rtf/txt. I've had Libre/OpenOffice docs blank/all text replaced with hashtags on me suddenly. AFAICT, it's an autosave bug that's never going to be fixed (though I'm not technical enough to know for sure). Personally, I would never use those programs for anything important.
- Ghoelian 1y ago
  Do you have any kind of source for that? A bug report or a PR or something? Also how would backing up specifically to rtf or txt help? Just back up the original doc files.
  - underlipton 1y ago
    https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=71&t=85038&p=493247#p493247 https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=71&t=8... Googling would show that any number of users run into issues with OO/LO file corruption, often from power interruption during saves. The applications seem to handle that in a suboptimal way, and maintainers are unwilling to address it. My suspicion is that their unspoken contention is that the problem is with Windows, not OO/LO. I recommend backing up to a general file type simply because it's less likely to open in the offending application by default, if the user ever needs to access it.
    - graemep 1y ago
      One comment says LibreOffice may have fixed the issue. it looks like the cause is a shutdown without flushing buffers so a file is not properly saved. Backups of any file type should be OK.
      - underlipton 1y ago
        It does, but I also found forum posts discussing similar issues with LO back when I had the original issue. I won't risk it; I would rather use applications without a hint of these problems. I've also dropped Evernote after it ate a few of my notes. It's almost impossible to get that user trust back without excising every bit of the concern, and then some, and unfortunately, the LO development community (like many FOSS communities, as well as many proprietary developers) is too self-involved to do that sort of thing.
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anonzzzies 1y ago
Ha! I recently thought I would try it again as the cloud & office are getting really too annoying. Libreoffice is snappier than google docs/sheets in the browser, which I say like this is special, but these days with Electron it really is. And it's on my own system. I'm staying here... It's fast & works well for work and private use.
- brewdad 1y ago
  I have a few Excel sheets loaded with legacy macros that Libre can't quite handle. If I didn't need to deal with those sheets that aren't really under my control to rewrite I could probably get off Windows for good.
whalesalad 1y ago
Check out onlyoffice as well. I use onlyoffice + libreoffice depending on the workload. I find libreoffice to have a better spreadsheet tool but prefer editing/commenting on documents in onlyoffice and it has a more modern aesthetic.
Beijinger 1y ago
Softmaker (Freeoffice) is much snappier. But I stopped using (buying!) it, after they refused to support LanguageTool.

I work on a mac, but I have Linux at home. I've started using LibreOffice at home and I'm surprised at how snappier it is compared to Word. Exported PDFs are even lighter that the ones Word do.

underlipton 1y ago

Backup important docs to rtf/txt. I've had Libre/OpenOffice docs blank/all text replaced with hashtags on me suddenly. AFAICT, it's an autosave bug that's never going to be fixed (though I'm not technical enough to know for sure). Personally, I would never use those programs for anything important.

Ghoelian 1y ago
Do you have any kind of source for that? A bug report or a PR or something? Also how would backing up specifically to rtf or txt help? Just back up the original doc files.
- underlipton 1y ago
  https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=71&t=85038&p=493247#p493247 https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=71&t=8... Googling would show that any number of users run into issues with OO/LO file corruption, often from power interruption during saves. The applications seem to handle that in a suboptimal way, and maintainers are unwilling to address it. My suspicion is that their unspoken contention is that the problem is with Windows, not OO/LO. I recommend backing up to a general file type simply because it's less likely to open in the offending application by default, if the user ever needs to access it.
  - graemep 1y ago
    One comment says LibreOffice may have fixed the issue. it looks like the cause is a shutdown without flushing buffers so a file is not properly saved. Backups of any file type should be OK.
    - underlipton 1y ago
      It does, but I also found forum posts discussing similar issues with LO back when I had the original issue. I won't risk it; I would rather use applications without a hint of these problems. I've also dropped Evernote after it ate a few of my notes. It's almost impossible to get that user trust back without excising every bit of the concern, and then some, and unfortunately, the LO development community (like many FOSS communities, as well as many proprietary developers) is too self-involved to do that sort of thing.
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anonzzzies 1y ago

Ha! I recently thought I would try it again as the cloud & office are getting really too annoying. Libreoffice is snappier than google docs/sheets in the browser, which I say like this is special, but these days with Electron it really is. And it's on my own system. I'm staying here... It's fast & works well for work and private use.

brewdad 1y ago
I have a few Excel sheets loaded with legacy macros that Libre can't quite handle. If I didn't need to deal with those sheets that aren't really under my control to rewrite I could probably get off Windows for good.

whalesalad 1y ago

Check out onlyoffice as well. I use onlyoffice + libreoffice depending on the workload. I find libreoffice to have a better spreadsheet tool but prefer editing/commenting on documents in onlyoffice and it has a more modern aesthetic.

Beijinger 1y ago

Softmaker (Freeoffice) is much snappier. But I stopped using (buying!) it, after they refused to support LanguageTool.