Re:LibreOffice 26.8 Released with Many Nice Improvements
by mmooss on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @12:59PM
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What are the pain points?
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Re:LibreOffice 26.8 Released with Many Nice Improvements
by edferda on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @01:52PM
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Off the top of my head:
* UX/UI issues. For example, in dark mode I can barely see some icons. This is minor.
* Laggy scrolling. If your mouse scrolls too fast the spreadsheet doesn’t go as fast. * Buggy automatic range detection. If you add more rows at the end of a dataset the auto filter won’t detect those new records even after reset.
* Pivot table feature parity. Calculated fields specifically (apparently this release fixes it)
* Dynamic arrays and tables
Re:LibreOffice 26.8 Released with Many Nice Improvements
by VCFundedGenYer on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @02:08PM
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The interface was designed at least 20 years ago and hasn't kept up. They've been gluing on elements of newer UIs but keeping the old around. You can keep an Office 2003 style menu but also have an Office 2007+ ribbon to very quickly make it an unintelligble mess. Other contemporary Office suites like OnlyOffice handled things so much better by comparison.
Smaller elements such as just trying to do something where you knew where it was in Word versus LibreOffice is also a convoluted mess. PivotTables for example in Calc are almost complete nonsense.