Which one is better for everyday usage and why?
I prefer LibreOffice. I never used Office.
>>61357381
Why is that even a question? MS Office all the way.
Bring this on SQT next time.
>Everyday usage
LibreOffice
>Professional / Job usage
MS Office
>>61357381
Gonna need you to define "everyday usage" before i can answer that.
>>61357381
Microsoft Office 2017-2018
It's not even a competition...
Libreoffice because its UI is similar to MSoffice 97, which is what I learned with.
>>61357584
>2007 + 10
>Still complaining about the ribbon
This is fucking hilarious
>>61357614
Well they haven't changed it or give to option to disable it, so why should I stop complaining?
>>61357381
LaTeX > MS Office > Libreoffice
However, the benefits of MS Office over Libreoffice isn't worth the cost
>>61357614
Fuck the ribbon and fuck you too.
>>61357381
MS office because LO has no compatibility with docx files or the ones for PowerPoint or excel.
>>61357381
MS Office just werks
M$ Office even though I hate M$, especially their .docx bullshit. it's polished and you can tell it's polished. LibreOffice might be libre, but it's a mess and you can tell it's a mess. you CAN get things done with LibreOffice, but it's messy.
>>61357414
>have never encountered MS Office
Can I live on your planet?
>>61357753
i got MS Office for free than to the phone call trick :^) I don't know if it still works right now.
>>61357614
it's less about ribbon and more about unresponsive UI with forced vsync to prevent tearing at the expense of user experience
>>61357381
LaTeX > Markdown > AsciiDoc > WPS Writer > LibreOffice > MS Word
>>61357381
MS officie because it does everything better?
>>61357381
>need to use ms word at work because idiots stuff email body text into a word doc instead of just writing a fucking email
>word crashes within 5 seconds of opening every time
>fsc /scannow comes back with no problems
>don't want office tech to touch this pc and risk my eclipse workspaces
>install libre office instead
>no problems for 2 years
>>61357434
>word processing
>professional
ahem...
>>61357381
MS Office if you do real work and need to be productive with other people who use Office to do real work.
There's only one thing Libre/Open/whatever is better at, which is editing a CSV without asking you if you're sure you want to throw away your non-existent formatting every single fucking time you press save.
LibreOffice.
I use it at home (rarely) and it runs on all computers at work (hospital)
If you're using windows: As a general package MS Office is still better, although writer>word. Libreoffice calc is terrible though and can't seem to handle large spreadsheets without crashing every hour or so.
If you need to interact with other people, MS Office.
Otherwise, LibreOffice.
>>61358056
not >>61357434
Try using libreoffice when everyone in your department uses ms office.
Last time libreoffice fucked comments and revisions on a .docx making the file unusable for colleagues.
softmaker office for compatibility and speed
>>61359877
>softmaker office
they ship thunderbird as an outlook replacement, kek.
I needed to edit a PDF file to add some lines. First tried to use MS Office and realized that there was NO WAY of editing a foreign PDF file. Apparently MS has a deal with Adobe so in their support page they encourage you to install their Adobe Acrobat PDF garbage.
After that, I went to LibreOffice and used their LO Draw. It worked well, didn't had to use a tutorial or anything (there were some annoying bugs but nothing that was a deal breaker).
So yeah LibreOffice worked and Microsoft Office didn't
>>61357381
Open Office. Fuck communism.
i unironically think writer is better software if you never use .docx or ms office with files you write. Worst thing i experienced is people opening an .odt file in word:
>odt made on LO is absolute fuckery in Word
>odt made in Word is absolute fuckery in Word after you save it or export it to pdf
Im trying to point out that libreoffice-word compatibility is absolutely one way thing,
and just use LO with odt, and use word with docx and tell people to fuck themselves every time.
>>61358056
>word is the only software in the office suite
MS Office, because Libre office, like every other open source program, can't make a good UI
>>61360046
Microsoft purposefully alternates their supposed """""open""""" OOXML standard to choke competition.
ODF standard is 300 pages long. Microsoft's OOXML standard is something like 1300+ pages long.
It's ridiculous since the old "closed" office xml standard (.doc) has pretty good compatibility and I don't recall ever having problems with transferring between LO and Word.
>>61360138
they probably added random 1000+ lines of "%DEVELOPERS!" into it, dont worry about it
doc/docx compatibility using LO is pretty good, but complex formulas can get fucked up, also they randomly dissapeared after getting edited a few times (i encountered this in LO 4.X though, nowdays it works nice)
>>61360051
anything other than word or excel is either hipster tier or targeted towards kids
>>61360235
ah yes I keep forgetting about all these highly-skilled word professionals and the fact that the world would crumble if it wasn't for Microsoft™ Word®
>>61357381
>For regular users
WPS > Libre > MS
>For businesses than need more than docs, spreadsheets and presentations
Libre = MS, depending if you want to work with open standards and/or save money, or if you want M$ for whatever reason.
>On phones
Google Office > WPS > anything else
>>61360282
i ment anthing other in the ms office suite desu.
90% of people using word would probably be fine with abiword or anything that allows them to write formatted text and tables, maybe with images.
>>61360046
since Office 2016 I've been using ODF files and never had issues with them. The only issues I've had were LibreOffice not being able to handle OOXML properly. I use Word mainly because university provides it, but still make all my documents ODF as I don't want to cuck myself out of them on Linux or when I eventually have to give up MS Office.
>>61360612
thanks for clearing this up
>>61357381
I would use libre office but it's been cucked so that nobody will be able to properly read libre office files on microsoft office. So screw it I use office online (for now).
When are we going to get a real competitor to Microsoft Excel? That's the only thing holding me back from switching to LibreOffice. Calc ain't cuttin' it fām
>>61357800
What's the trick? I Googled but found nothing
>>61360051
>doing anything in ms access
>>61357381
Libre-office is okay for basic projects, but horrible if you want to make anything above average. Also, when I used it in Debian 8, it bring the system to a crawl with an AMD card.
Microsoft Office is WPS Office but inferior.
>>61357414
How can you prefer something when you've never used the alternative?
>>61357661
>LaTeX to make a spreadsheet
Good luck I guess
>not using freedom respecting software
is this even a question OP?
you arent from around here are you?
>>61357381