LibreOffice 400M Downloads, and Counting

Re:LibreOffice 400M Downloads, and Counting by t43562 on Thursday January 30, 2025 @08:37AM (#42877535)

This sounds like it doesn't count the use of libreoffice in Linux distros. I never download it for example. I suppose that 400mil downloads is probably from Windows and Mac users.

I used to consider it very heavy but my daughter's Raspberry pi runs it fine.

I use the Draw component the most. It is great for drawing boxes with text connected by arrows which is what my main use case is. Miro is better because it scales text when you scale a box and if Draw could do this I'd be in heaven.

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Re:LibreOffice 400M Downloads, and Counting by tpoacher on Thursday January 30, 2025 @08:52AM (#42877638)

I'm on linux but I also download from the website to get the latest updates; the distro repo versions are typically quite outdated.

In theory, the downloadable version lets you know when there's an update. In practice I'm using a little script [0] which I've integrated in my update manager to manage update-notifications for me.

[0] https://sr.ht/~tpapastylianou/misc-updater/

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Re:LibreOffice 400M Downloads, and Counting by t43562 on Thursday January 30, 2025 @10:37AM (#42878714)

I love the idea - there are a lot of things I want to watch for updates that I build or install myself from a download!

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Re:LibreOffice 400M Downloads, and Counting by tpoacher on Thursday February 06, 2025 @07:39AM (#42961797)

Thanks! If you try it and have any feedback please let me know :)

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Re:LibreOffice 400M Downloads, and Counting by lousken on Thursday January 30, 2025 @12:49PM (#42880146)

I use libreoffice just like regular old office, once every few years I get a major update when I update my distro, it's fine too.

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Re:LibreOffice 400M Downloads, and Counting by EasyMark on Thursday January 30, 2025 @07:39PM (#42883689)

I just use the flatpak version, it's always the latest version, or very close to the latest.

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Re:LibreOffice 400M Downloads, and Counting by hahn-kev on Thursday January 30, 2025 @10:07AM (#42878426)

Draw is great, I use it to edit PDFs, though it doesn't always handle that very well, it's really nice when I need to do some simple stuff.

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Re:LibreOffice 400M Downloads, and Counting by bdcravens on Thursday January 30, 2025 @09:49AM (#42878241)

That would make sense, since that would ridiculously inflate those numbers. I bet I've installed Open/LibreOffice a couple of dozen times inadvertently.

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Re:LibreOffice 400M Downloads, and Counting by dtm987654123 on Thursday January 30, 2025 @08:49AM (#42877611)

it also excludes downloads Windows/Mac OS app stores though I don't know what percentage of Windows/Mac users would download it that way

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