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LibreOffice Recommendations

Comments primarily recommend or debate LibreOffice as a free, open-source alternative to Microsoft Office and OpenOffice, discussing its quality, maintenance, compatibility, and superiority.

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Sample Comments

BlueTemplar • Jul 3, 2023 • View on HN

Amazing, but why not something open source like LibreOffice instead ?!

Stealth- • Oct 14, 2013 • View on HN

Have you tried LibreOffice? It's a significant improvement.

inamberclad • Oct 28, 2017 • View on HN

No one has mentioned LibreOffice?

pointillistic • Mar 29, 2019 • View on HN

There is LibreOffice a fork from Open Office. It's pretty good actually.

pabs3 • Sep 7, 2020 • View on HN

OpenOffice is not very well maintained, I would go with LibreOffice these days.

doener • Oct 15, 2016 • View on HN

Is there any reason to use OpenOffice instead of LibreOffice?

msaharia • Oct 8, 2018 • View on HN

Libre office is not even 10% MS Office. Don't know why people recommend it. It messes up my word formatting.

nope96 • Jul 22, 2022 • View on HN

Are there reasons I'd use this over LibreOffice?

cynicalsecurity • Sep 15, 2024 • View on HN

Why still use MS Office when LibreOffice is freely available?

nyolfen • Mar 1, 2021 • View on HN

are you thinking of libreoffice?