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Re:Looking back at my transition from Windows to Linux in an... by n3storm on Sunday August 24, 2025 @04:55PM (#45007683)
Please consider checking LibreOffice periodically, every 4 - 6 months Ms compatibility increases at steady pace, it may have solved that issue that was keeping you back from using it (25 years using linux and staroffice)
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Re:Looking back at my transition from Windows to Linux in an... by SoftTalker on Sunday August 24, 2025 @04:57PM (#45007707)
Functionality is pretty good but the UI is from the 1990s.
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Re:Looking back at my transition from Windows to Linux in an... by bigstrat2003 on Sunday August 24, 2025 @05:26PM (#45007947)
That's a good thing. UI design peaked around that era and has been going downhill ever since.
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Re:Looking back at my transition from Windows to Linux in an... by zaruvi on Sunday August 24, 2025 @09:37PM (#45009405)
These days you can choose between different UIs, some of which will have the "ribbon" style. I do agree though that it feels a bit dated if you're used to MS' office, but you get used to it quite quickly.
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Re:Looking back at my transition from Windows to Linux in an... by uncircle on Monday August 25, 2025 @02:52AM (#45011027)
GP probably wanted to say that LibreOffice’s UI is 90s era Linux quality, rather than the beauty of Office 97 and such. Mismatched, not native, terrible stock icons, clunky and frankly ugly.
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Re:Looking back at my transition from Windows to Linux in an... by n3storm on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @06:02PM (#45032901)
You haven't checked in a lon time ;)
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Re:Looking back at my transition from Windows to Linux in an... by trinsic2 on Monday August 25, 2025 @12:15AM (#45010138)
Libre office has some annoyances though. I cannot for the life of me disable the document recovery model that always pops up on every launch regardless if a document needs to be recovered or not. Also I cant seem to get printing to default to 8 1/2x11 formatting.
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Re:Looking back at my transition from Windows to Linux in an... by n3storm on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @06:01PM (#45032893)
The recovery dialog annoys me too.
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