I was astonished to find the other day that LibreOffice has no problem opening ClarisWorks files. That is an ancient Mac format that even Apple’s Pages has long since abandoned.
The 90s are calling, they want their UX back.
You can change it to ribbon-style in view > user interface of you want
What’s wrong with the 90s UX? It lets you do your work without being intrusive or annoying, so what’s wrong with it?
the tabbed UI is way better, much easier to find stuff if you havent already memorized it.
i know libreoffice has it but it should 100% be the default instead of the ancient paradigm of just throwing a million unorganized buttons in there and hoping you remember where everything is.
90s UIs are dying for a good reason.
So, the problem is that people doesn’t have a working memory anymore, is that so?
not really, people just wanna use it for the work they are using that software for, not navigating a bad ui
But people in the 90s were doing their work just fine, with that same UX paradigm. What’s the difference now?
Just to be clear, I’m not saying that software’s UI and UX doesn’t need to evolve. But it bothers me that a perfectly usable UI gets criticized only because it’s “old” and doesn’t look “modern” (tf is a “modern UI”, btw?).
the difference is that we want guis to be better than they were. yes you can still use a 90s ui.
im not criticizing it because its “old”. i think i gave a pretty good reason in my OP.
It’s not popular in the mainstream, that’s what’s wrong’s with it
You can make it look however you want.
For me I’ve been using it for a long while now so the default layout feels right.
Instead of thinking of the 90s UI as dated market it as retro and watch hipsters laud it for its classic feel.
Also, there are 7 different UI options to choose from. Maybe try those out and find one that fits you.
With GTK theming, it can look good
I love LibreOffice. Often when it’s mentioned I’ve seen people with the opposite sentiment, but it never caused me any trouble and I really enjoy the small tabs option for the interface.
Microsoft Office has once decided to take my locally created file, shove it somewhere in OneDrive, then revert it to the state it was 24 hours prior - I couldn’t recover the newer version. Guess which software never deleted my files? LibreOffice.
I have had the exact same experience with Office 365. It overwrote my local copy with an older version from cloud. My finished version was nowhere to be found. Took me half the night to create the doc again.
I always save MS docs under multiple file names now to defend against this. It is a hassle though. I also use LibreOffice for personal stuff, largely for this reason.
Libreoffice is so reliable. I’ve never had a real issue with it. I like that in this increasingly internet-always-on world I can count on Linux applications to just work whenever I please.
Libre office or open office, what do you guys think? I’ve used both from time to time.
Open office has been dead for years now. The core team moved to Libre Office
OnlyOffice is the main alternative to Libre these days.
I personally prefer it because offers better compatibility with the Microsoft 365 documents I need for work.
It saddens me that the best to have compatibility is to never touch MS Office. They are the largest player by far. Subtly fucking up or deviating from open document standards will always be seen as “well, the issue is non MS office”.
Is there a LibreOffice-like-thing for Android?
Collabora Office, but it can lag at times.
I’ll wait until version 24.7 …
