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Honest question. In the era of collaborative document editing on browser-based platforms, who is using this software and what are they using it for? I work with documents for my job and it’s been literally decades since I used a local standalone word processor.
Only Office which is online and collaborative, is based on LibreOffice.
One single work day of patchy internet can change how you look at this.
I need local font support far, far more often than I need collaborative editing. Plus, call me old, but I don’t like storing everything on a server in Virginia for Google to read.
I almost never use it, but if LibreOffice can come in handy a few times a year, why not at least keep it installed?
A lot of stuff is indeed browser based, so I probably spend more time in Firefox than in my code editor and terminal.
But LibreOffice is welcome to live on 0.1% of my disk space!
Yeah, mirroring the other comment here -it’s standalone app everytime for me. I’m a bit of a power user, so maybe it’s the extra functionality that just can’t be handled in a browser which already has 20 other tabs open, but live colab is … well, just not used that often.
Sure, we’ll be tweaking cells in a spreadsheet now & again, but my technical documents are done by one person, then reviewed (comments, track changes, etc) by others for the audit trail.
And I’m just not going to purchase a Microsoft product again.
But I will contribute to Open Source… ODF has done great things.
I’d say it depends on what you do and how much collaboration with other people is involved. I have always used standalone clients, and I’m not a fan anything web browser based (or cloud in general). I started using LibreCalc instead of Excel for my job a few months ago. Now that I got used to it, I love it. It loads faster, has regex out of the box. Excel has already become quite enshittified, in my opinion.
What you both said are true. It’s convenient to load a site and perform tasks to a degree what native clients can, and it’s also weird how since more than a decade ago we can’t agree on anything and now we are trying to do everything in a web client.
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Flatpak?
Not immediately up-to-date at all times, but I use backports. Looks like they’re only a point release behind still. https://packages.debian.org/bookworm-backports/libreoffice
The only time it gets behind by a full version is if Debian Stable is really long in the tooth and Backports can’t compile something due to a compiler or library being really old or if Backports hasn’t been created yet because Stable is young.
