LibreOffice 24.2.2 is now available for download as the second point release to the LibreOffice 24.2 office suite fixing more than 70 bugs.
  • 🇨🇦 tunetardis
    41•1 year ago

    I was astonished to find the other day that LibreOffice has no problem opening ClarisWorks files. That is an ancient Mac format that even Apple’s Pages has long since abandoned.

    • @bazzett@lemmy.world
      18•1 year ago

      What’s wrong with the 90s UX? It lets you do your work without being intrusive or annoying, so what’s wrong with it?

      • illectrility
        42•1 year ago

        Sorry but a word processor that doesn’t trigger a 9 second laggy animation with every button press is just simply unusable

            • @bazzett@lemmy.world
              4•1 year ago

              But people in the 90s were doing their work just fine, with that same UX paradigm. What’s the difference now?

              Just to be clear, I’m not saying that software’s UI and UX doesn’t need to evolve. But it bothers me that a perfectly usable UI gets criticized only because it’s “old” and doesn’t look “modern” (tf is a “modern UI”, btw?).

    • Possibly linuxEnglish
      15•1 year ago

      You can make it look however you want.

      For me I’ve been using it for a long while now so the default layout feels right.

    • pbjammEnglish
      6•1 year ago

      Instead of thinking of the 90s UI as dated market it as retro and watch hipsters laud it for its classic feel.

      Also, there are 7 different UI options to choose from. Maybe try those out and find one that fits you.

    • @LeFantome@programming.dev
      7•1 year ago

      I have had the exact same experience with Office 365. It overwrote my local copy with an older version from cloud. My finished version was nowhere to be found. Took me half the night to create the doc again.

      I always save MS docs under multiple file names now to defend against this. It is a hassle though. I also use LibreOffice for personal stuff, largely for this reason.

    • @ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social
      1•1 year ago

      Libreoffice is so reliable. I’ve never had a real issue with it. I like that in this increasingly internet-always-on world I can count on Linux applications to just work whenever I please.

    • KabeEnglish
      13•1 year ago

      OnlyOffice is the main alternative to Libre these days.

      I personally prefer it because offers better compatibility with the Microsoft 365 documents I need for work.

      • @okamiueru@lemmy.world
        20•1 year ago

        It saddens me that the best to have compatibility is to never touch MS Office. They are the largest player by far. Subtly fucking up or deviating from open document standards will always be seen as “well, the issue is non MS office”.