Libre Office has become bloatware

Nomen Nescio

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Jul 9, 2022, 9:48:22 PM7/9/22

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SLOW AS FUCK
would turn anyone off FOSS for life

Marco Moock

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Jul 10, 2022, 3:06:06 AM7/10/22

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Am Sonntag, 10. Juli 2022, um 03:48:20 Uhr schrieb Nomen Nescio:

> SLOW AS FUCK
> would turn anyone off FOSS for life

I know it is slow, but is MS Office better on the same hardware?
I don't think so, Windows 10 needs an SSD to be fast, Windows on
older HDDs is very slow compared to Debian.

I run LibreOffice on a Pentium 4, Windows 11 can't even run on that
machine.

Peter Jason

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Jul 10, 2022, 5:16:54 PM7/10/22

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On Sun, 10 Jul 2022 09:05:49 +0200, Marco Moock <mo...@posteo.de>
wrote:

I sold all my old stuff ages ago. Now I use NUC computers with SSDs
for software and HDDs for storage. I use the MSoft 365 for the
office. Never looked back.

Computer Nerd Kev

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Jul 10, 2022, 7:00:02 PM7/10/22

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Yeah, I avoid it in preference for other open-source office
software for most tasks. But it is the only thing that opens M$
Office document formats when people are rude enough to send them to
me, so unfortunately it stays.

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Xeno

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Jul 12, 2022, 11:27:45 PM7/12/22

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I use Apple NUC equivalents - Mac Minis. I use Libre Office and Pages
(Apple). No real issues with either of them in working with M$ documents
with the exception of the odd missing font here and there - and that is
easily addressed. My reason for using Libre Office - it is cross
platform so I can work with equal ease on Windows, Mac or Linux.

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Marco Moock

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Jul 13, 2022, 1:37:49 AM7/13/22

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Am Mittwoch, 13. Juli 2022, um 13:27:40 Uhr schrieb Xeno:

> No real issues with either of them in working with M$ documents
> with the exception of the odd missing font here and there

I also use LibreOffice because I run Ubuntu and Debian (I hate Windows
10/11). Many MS Office documents create problems, e.g. word documents
with styling, PPT with animation.

Xeno

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Jul 17, 2022, 7:15:00 PM7/17/22

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That goes with the M$ territory.

Marco Moock

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Jul 18, 2022, 12:34:49 AM7/18/22

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Am Mon, 18 Jul 2022 09:14:55 +1000
schrieb Xeno <xeno...@optusnet.com.au>:

> That goes with the M$ territory.

That's why I try to avoid that whenever possible.

Xeno

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Jul 19, 2022, 9:07:08 AM7/19/22

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Ditto. Only use Windows on one machine and only fire that up when I need
to archive my email.

keithr0

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Jul 20, 2022, 12:18:13 AM7/20/22

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On 19/07/2022 11:07 pm, Xeno wrote:
> On 18/7/2022 2:34 pm, Marco Moock wrote:
>> Am Mon, 18 Jul 2022 09:14:55 +1000
>> schrieb Xeno <xeno...@optusnet.com.au>:
>>
>>> That goes with the M$ territory.
>>
>> That's why I try to avoid that whenever possible.
>>
> Ditto. Only use Windows on one machine and only fire that up when I need
> to archive my email.
>

I use my windows machine every day for everything other than compiling
Raspi Pico code. I do that on Ubuntu, same machine using WSL2, it runs
GCC like a rocketship. Other than that there is a RasPi 3 running an
MQTT server and and a RasPi ZeroW which monitors my solar inverter, and
that runs C# code so M$ everywhere and apart from one recent hiccup no
problems.