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Re:LibreOffice 400M Downloads, and Counting by kwanbix on Thursday January 30, 2025 @09:20AM (#42877892)
I've tried to like LibreOffice for years, but man, it's just so ugly. And no, I’m not asking for a ribbon interface (I think that's awful too), but the UI looks like it’s stuck in the past.
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Re:LibreOffice 400M Downloads, and Counting by system7rocks on Thursday January 30, 2025 @10:03AM (#42878399)
Yes, 400M downloads are like 400M acceptances of mediocrity and awful design. It’s always been so slow too in my opinion.

You can improve a Linux distro by simply not including LibreOffice.

Sigh.

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Re:LibreOffice 400M Downloads, and Counting by t0bia_s on Thursday January 30, 2025 @09:31AM (#42878028)
Like most open source projects unfortunately.
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Re:LibreOffice 400M Downloads, and Counting by lousken on Thursday January 30, 2025 @12:44PM (#42880094)
Growing up on windows 98 and xp I still don't understand what people like about modern looking apps
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Re:LibreOffice 400M Downloads, and Counting by Gigachad on Thursday January 30, 2025 @04:04PM (#42882170)
Most FOSS projects are basically incapable of updating their UI since the user base tends to be a collection of people most resistant to any change.

You’d almost be better starting a project from scratch than trying to fix libreoffice.

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