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LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice.org one year laterLibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice.org one year laterPosted Sep 15, 2011 8:16 UTC (Thu) by liljencrantz (guest, #28458)Parent article: LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice.org one year later
I avoid office suites whenever possible, but my experience (limited to the versions of OpenOffice and LibreOffice in the last few Ubuntu releases) is that stability has taken a significant dip in the last year or so. On my machines as well as those of my co-workers, both Writer and Calc crashes several times per hour of use when performing simple tasks. To me, that's the biggest thing I wish they'd work on.
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LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice.org one year later Posted Sep 15, 2011 18:46 UTC (Thu) by JEFFREY (subscriber, #79095) [Link]
I agree. I've abandoned spreadsheets for databases, and word-processors for plain-text editors. My text documents use ReStructured Text, which can be typeset and published a variety of ways later.
The doc-utils package and LSB bring in all the tools for a much more portable and flexible (although at the expense of a learning curve) word processing experience.
LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice.org one year later Posted Sep 15, 2011 19:01 UTC (Thu) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link] I avoid office suites too, but I have to use a spreadsheet and a presentation tool sometimes. I have the opposite experience from you; I find LibreOffice calc and impress nicer than in the past and quite stable. Maybe I'm not a power-enough user to stress them.
LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice.org one year later Posted Sep 15, 2011 21:25 UTC (Thu) by liljencrantz (guest, #28458) [Link]
I doubt that's it. I'm saving sheets from larger files as CSV files, I'm creating simple spread sheets with a few sums, graphs and table lookups, I'm editing and printing simple text documents. By no stretch of the imagination could you call me a power user.
LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice.org one year later Posted Sep 18, 2011 9:19 UTC (Sun) by Tet (subscriber, #5433) [Link]
Why are you using OO/LO calc for that, when gnumeric does it so much better with much lower resource requirements?
LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice.org one year later Posted Sep 22, 2011 8:34 UTC (Thu) by callegar (guest, #16148) [Link]
My personal experience is that LO and OO have the unfortunate destiny of being capable to trigger almost every single X11 bug, particularly with the opensource intel driver.
I have 2 machines with different graphic cards and the same setup and distro and the difference in behavior is striking, with artifacts appearing on one of them from the very splash screen. And then, messed fonts in presentations, presentation animations with graphical elements appearing and disappering erratically, etc.
All this obviously does not contribute to giving LO and OO a positive fame, even if they might not be their fault.
LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice.org one year later Posted Sep 22, 2011 20:03 UTC (Thu) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]
> My personal experience is that LO and OO have the unfortunate destiny of being capable to trigger almost every single X11 bug, particularly with the opensource intel driver.
If you're not actually editing files and just need to view them, I'd recommend checking out unoconv[1] which uses OO.o/LO to convert from the command line. If you actually use OO.o/LO in a server/client model, it can also use a remote server instead of installing the packages and all the dependencies on your machines.
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