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Re:Inkscape 1.2 released by danielheath on Monday May 16, 2022 @11:36PM (#31405783)
LibreOffice is great, but it's not comparable to commercial desktop word processors.

However, it's far, far better than any browser-based one I've used.

Re:Inkscape 1.2 released by stephen_g on Monday May 16, 2022 @11:59PM (#31405889)
Depends on what you want to do... I find LibreOffice fine because if I want to create documents that are actually complex I'm going to reach for InDesign or LaTeX. I don't find something like Microsoft Word really much better for anything I'd want to do with it than LibreOffice.
Re:Inkscape 1.2 released by kqr on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @03:21AM (#31407060)
This is what I've arrived at too.

If I just want to make notes, I'll use Org or Markdown in plain text. These can also be converted to HTML for web.

If I want to print something with lots of text, nothing beats LaTeX.

If I am making something design intensive, I'll use Scribus or some other desktop publishing software.

I guess regular people think of word processors as the Swiss army knife here: does everything, not particularly well, but worth only having to learn one software?