Re:LibreOffice 7.3
by BiteCode_dev on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @12:34PM
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I don't know, the crash last week was from and LTS Ubuntu on a supported Dell XPS with 32Go of RAM. Seem like ideal linux conditions to me.
There might be even more esoteric variables that influence the appearance of crashes, e.g. which typefaces are used in your documents.
I am pretty sure that we do not use the same typefaces, as I do not use any of the typefaces that are distributed as default in Linux, but I use some commercial typefaces, which I have purchased separately.
I believe that the only way for such elusive bugs to be solved is that whoever experiences the crashes should attempt to create a reproducible crash and file a bug report.
In that case the crashes are probably caused by bugs that are difficult to reproduce on the developer computers.
I have been using LibreOffice daily for many years, since almost immediately after it forked from OpenOffice. It continues to have various annoying behaviors, which I consider bugs (however less than those that I consider bugs in MS Office), but it never crashes on any of my computers.
However, I compile LibreOffice from source, on a Gentoo Linux.
The fact that LibreOffice never crashes in this particular configuration, does not give much information about how it might behave on Fedora or Ubuntu, because LibreOffice uses a very large number of external libraries and the crashes could depend on their versions.
Besides the dependence on the Linux distribution, there might be a dependence on the available memory. I do not have any computer with less than 32 GB RAM. Maybe the crashes are possible only on computers with less installed memory.