LibreOffice is preinstalled in Pop OS, and as someone who loves the idea of FOSS I want to use it, but inevitably I just use Google docs or Office Online. Is it really worth learning? Has anyone successfully incorporated it into your workflow?
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For me, yes, and not just for personal or academic use. I’ve created and editted countless business documents with it. I’ve gotten at least four jobs with the resume I wrote with it.
Yes, I’ve used it for years both privately and on business machines.
I have it deployed at work for my 55 users instead of getting Microsoft Office licenses for all of them. They are not sophisticated users and it suits their needs. I probably field a few more questions for it than MS Office but they would call about that too since they think I am Google.
I personally think that Calc does a better job handling various CSV files than Excel.
I do. I’m never going to pay for Microsoft Office. No need. Libre does fine.
I use Calc all the time for work. A lot of our clients send in xlsx files and I can open them and get the information out of them easily. Sometimes I need to build or modify CSV files. It’s a powerhouse for that.
I stylized my (for print) resume with Writer. Unless I’m working collaboratively I use writer for any documents to be printed. Any docs that aren’t destined for the press are just markdown.
LibreOffice is very appreciated and I’m glad it’s a standard on most distros.
I’ve been using it for years for all personal office suite uses.
Along with GIMP for photo editing
Yes. I’ve been using it since the old OpenOffice days. It works well, it’s easy to learn, it’s well supported, and it’s free.
Well, I have a license for MS Office from work that I have never actually installed, because Libre Office is just much simpler to deal with. I’m sure at some point I will need it, but since WFH started there has been no such time.
Honestly, I have no idea how people can stand MS Word. It’s a complete piece of shit that barely works. If you want it for a text editor, you will have a much better experience with any other suite. But Excel is good, and Power Point does that thing it does quite well (if that’s a good thing, it’s up to opinion). Those are harder to replace.
I used OpenOffice and then LibreOffice all the way through college. However in the past couple years I moved to a combination of Office 365 and VSCode because I used the OneDrive cloud storage which comes at a pretty solid discount.
I don’t enjoy using Google docs - but I seem to be an exception to the rule there. Most people seem to see no reason to have anything else.
same here! The whole Google suite is just so unbearably slow at the school i go to, but we’re all forced to use it.
I juggle between whatever office suite is installed at the time. I’ve found that they’re all pretty much the same. If you know one, the rest are virtually the same.
Not having constant internet access, LibreOffice is a valuable tool to me. I kind of dread the day when the development of fundamental desktop applications assumes a constant internet connection.
I use LibreOffice to fill out important documents and taxes. I don’t trust google, or myself for that matter, to hold that kind of data securely in the cloud without encryption.
I sure do. On everything.
I use it for pretty much everything that I would use Microsoft Word for. Essays, signs, résumés, legal documents… lots of uses.
I do, on Windows (boo-womp). It really does the job well, but I need some more time to get used to it.
