Re:"LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying."
by internet2000 on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:32PM
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I couldn't launch LibreOffice for like, 3 days, earlier this year after a botched ArchLinux upgrade that moved some libraries it needed.
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Re:"LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying."
by chaps on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:34PM
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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