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Re:"LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying." by Narishma on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:50PM (#50487108)
> If LibreOffice were good enough already, it would already be popular.

Not true. There's inertia and network effects in play that often prevent better products from succeeding against established ones.

Re:"LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying." by emsixteen on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:58PM (#50487224)
Let's be honest though, the UI is absolutely dreadful.
Re:"LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying." by chris_wot on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:26PM (#50487645)
What specifically don't you like?
Re:"LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying." by eastbound on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:38PM (#50487839)
On Mac, all key mappings are still wired for PC. In the Save As dialog, Alt-Shit-Left to select the last word of the filename doesn't work, the Home key doesn't work, the Cmd+C doesn't copy, nothing works like on Mac.

Basically the keyboard is all wired weirdly in LibreOffice for Mac.

Re:"LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying." by adrian_b on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:26PM (#50487649)
Are you talking about MS Office?

In my opinion, the user interface of modern MS Office is absolutely horrible.

I have used a lot of old MS Office versions, and until 20 years ago I thought that its user interface was very good.

Then there was a gap of about a decade when I did not need MS Office at work and I also had no reason to update my personally purchased MS Office Professional (which I was running on Linux, using Crossover, where it was more performant and more stable than on Windows).

After that gap, when I encountered again MS Office, I was shocked by how awkward its UI had become meanwhile.

Today I prefer very much the UI of LibreOffice, which is similar to the old MS UI, instead of the modern MS Office UI.

There are a lot of things that I dislike in the LibreOffice UI, but even so, I consider the MS Office UI much worse.

Because there was a time in the past when I was a heavy MS Office user, when using the modern MS Office I am aware about a great number of commands that exist, but I am no longer able to find them in the MS Office menus.

In the old MS Office, those commands were grouped in a way that was logical for me, so it was easy to find them even when I did not know where they were, because I had not used them before. But in the modern interface many commands are not where I would expect them to be, so there have been many case when I had to do a random search through all menus, to locate them after a long time.

Re:"LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying." by k0morebi on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:11PM (#50489716)
For years I used a custom plugin that restored the regular file menus in lieu of the ribbon. I still can't find anything in the ribbon in excel. Is it in the home tab, formatting, or data? Guess I'll look in each. Every time. Something about it that after so many years can't internalize it.
Re:"LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying." by inanutshellus on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:29PM (#50487679)
The magic of capitalism is that it can pay for superfluous fluff like "make the toolbars look slightly different". Just costs $120/year!
Re:"LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying." by BadBadJellyBean on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:39PM (#50487841)
When was the last time you have used LibreOffice? The newer versions are heavily inspired by the office workflow. Maybe the design is a bit boring but it's not bad.