> Yet, Writer simply works.

Except that today i literally ran into the problem of Writer crashing whenever an image in the page was resized. There was a table that was spanning multiple pages and my dad was attempting to add pictures to it, along with small text comments below each picture. And, without fail, that particular document crashed whenever you'd use the drag tool to attempt to resize the picture, so that instead of overflowing into a new page, it'd fit within the current one.

Now, i didn't have the time to debug further (Windows 10, Writer 7), but one cannot say that Writer is bulletproof either, even if it's perhaps one of the very few office suites out there that are probably worthy of most people's time and present a usable alternative to the proprietary .docx and other file formats.

Honestly, at this point i'm convinced that Writer is okay for when you absolutely need a more advanced text processor, but for every other sort of note, shorter pieces of writing etc., Markdown is more than enough. Now i mostly just reach for Visual Studio Code, Notepad++ or even just nano when i want to take notes, write some fiction or anything of the sort.

Plus, i can currently combine all of the notes from my driver's ed by simply concatenating the .md files, as well as searching becomes infinitely more easy when compared to binary file formats and such.

Edit: Also, if we're talking about annoying cases of LibreOffice breaking, here's an example of references (bibliography) failing to work when i had to hand in my Master's thesis: https://blog.kronis.dev/everything%20is%20broken/libreoffice... (the tone expresses my frustration at that time)

> but for every other sort of note, shorter pieces of writing etc., Markdown is more than enough

Oh, yeah, not go adding formating that one doesn't need is a great way to avoid a lot of pain.

Markdown if more than enough for nearly all the writing people do. (But it's not enough for all the writing that most people do.)

> Word is a complete bullshit of a tool.

Maybe true, but Libre Office is not really any better, just free and open source. It's also nowhere near as familiar and well supported, and that's worth a lot.

more people are probably hit by the list managing mess, but the one that got me recently was a blue line of some sort. Some margin or page break or something. My attorney asked if I could help him remove the blue line from the middle of the page he was typing out on a contract we were working on. For the life of me, I was unable to remove the blue line in <10min of effort. I had to say sorry, talk to your tech guy.

My solution for these problems (kind of like turn off/turn on): Create a new word document, and copy-paste stuff in front and stuff after to the new document. Sometimes this works when normal editing doesn’t.

Our solution to anything like this has always been copy to notepad and back again. Old people knows exactly what is meant but people 25 and younger usually don't understand why or how. Seems to be a generational thing. Lately even notepad preserves utf8 so the method is starting to break together :)

In Notepad, you can save the file in a simpler character set (save as).

The Show Styles, Style Inspector and Reveal Formatting panes all help with stuff like this. The last one should give a pretty clear hint to where the line is defined.