Austria's Armed Forces Gets Rid of Microsoft Office (Mostly) for LibreOffice
Austria's Armed Forces Gets Rid of Microsoft Office (Mostly) for LibreOffice
LibreOffice is just as good nowadays
No, LibreOffice is way better nowadays.
And that is mainly thanks to MS Office having gotten way worse than before.
There is a long standing problem where LibreOffice becomes very slow when adding images.
That hasn't been fixed, last I checked.
But thanks to MS Office now being slow all the time and also taking up way too much RAM, meaning that opening 4-5 Word+Excel documents on 8GB RAM means you are constantly using the page file (my exp. with Office 2015 back then), LibreOffice's problem is not a big deal any more.
Your experience might not match what I am saying, because I am comparing MS Office on Windows vs LibreOffice on Linux.
So your comparison is a 10 year old version of office on an old version of windows on old unknown to us hardware vs (I assume) the latest version of LibreOffice on (I also assume) newer hardware?
Office hasn’t gotten worse lol. It has got better and better with every release too. It’s the industry standard, and it isn’t a resource hog. No one should have 8GB of RAM in their pc in 2025 either.
Making no comparison is better than making your pointless one.
Does it do any of the Microsoft 365 features like versioning, collaboration / multi-editing and such? This has been a game changer for many corporate environments that used to rely on file servers and usb drives. I feel LibreOffice might be stuck in a previous decade of office software without this.
Its great to have another 5 or 6 users! Good work Australia! LOL.
Put another shrimp on the barbie!
Austriae est imperare orbi universo
isn't openoffice the better one or is the jury still out on that one?
i dunno, I just wordpad everything
LibreOffice is based on OpenOffice but OpenOffice is basically abandoned with every few updates or improvements over a good handful of years now. LibreOffice is generally seen as the successor and I wouldn’t be surprised is OpenOffice just gets archived.
I think you have it backwards. LibreOffice is the better one. OpenOffice has not seen any real updates since 2015. ( The apache foundation that is technicality still maintaining openoffice themselves say that OpenOffice has too many open security issues)
I think openoffice might be better for compatibility with Microsoft format docx.
No, OpenOffice is dead in the water. Either use LibreOffice or, maybe, one of its forks.
All the cool kids are using military-grade, open-source productivity tools now
Fun fact about military-grade.
It means jack shit. It's a marketing buzz word, and should be illegal to use in commercial sense.
It generally means the cheapest option with the simplest possible operation that does the job well enough.