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Re:"LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying." by internet2000 on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:32PM (#50486787)
I couldn't launch LibreOffice for like, 3 days, earlier this year after a botched ArchLinux upgrade that moved some libraries it needed.
Re:"LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying." by chaps on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:34PM (#50486821)
Yeah LibreOffice isn't wrong to throw shade but no matter how soft their wares are, they shouldn't throw them in glass houses.
Re:"LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying." by stn8188 on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:35PM (#50486843)
I've had similar things break when I was on Arch years ago. My wife was quite unhappy that she couldn't log in to use it (I think it was a graphics driver thing). Even though I usually like Fedora, I recently settled on Void for my personal workstation and I've been thoroughly enjoying it.
Re:"LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying." by jen20 on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:36PM (#50486848)
That sounds like an ArchLinux problem rather than a LibreOffice problem?
Re:"LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying." by drstewart on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:48PM (#50487068)
And I doubt the root cause issue here is with Microsoft Office Suite
Re:"LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying." by jen20 on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:24PM (#50487623)
So? The operating system package manager breaking packages is a different type of problem to an online service being down. LibreOffice presumably did not break in Debian or Nix.
Re:"LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying." by wsowens on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:36PM (#50486867)
I can't quite put my finger on it, but I feel like there's maybe something else in this sentence that might be a greater source of your issues
Re:"LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying." by internet2000 on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:04PM (#50487314)
Isn't it the same for Microsoft Office?
Re:"LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying." by thece0 on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:36PM (#50486871)
Thats not really the fault of LibreOffice, is it now? Thats like me complaining about not being able to use my oven after I blew my fusebox
Re:"LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying." by chrystalkey on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:38PM (#50486903)
Thats a thing though with Rolling release models.

All software can suffer from that, but thats what you wanted so idk why this falls back onto Libre Office

Re:"LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying." by righthand on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:43PM (#50487000)
This is why I stopped using Arch, just wait until you update and try to reboot and it doesn’t work, then you have to update again via mounting your disk through a liveusb installer.
Re:"LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying." by ada-h00k on Friday November 13, 2026 @02:51PM (#50488768)
That's what Flatpak is for. It runs smoothly and independently of the distribution.