LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs | The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded by nearly 1 million users a week
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https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/13/libreoffice_wasm_zetaoffice/
Native Realtime collaboration on documents and spreadsheets is the last feature holding us back from switching in business environments.
Collabora office
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You can dual boot on pretty much whatever you have, though I recommend buying a separate drive for Linux for minimum headaches.
But yeah, I get it. Linux will be there when you're ready.
Please don't suggest newcomers to dual boot. It's very technical and requires a lot of knowledge and effort to troubleshoot when windows eventually fights back with new shenanigans. It provides a skewed impression of what using Linux is like.
Just suggest to try the distros as a live USB. It gets them 90% of the way into an install, and it's perfectly safe and reversible.
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Been using openoffice for 15+ years, what made you switch to libreoffice?
For me it was docx. Oo couldn't get the formatting right but libre could. This was back when docx was new and i was in school ao the teachers didn't take off for strange lines or bad formatting.
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We should all get Signal as well. If you don't have it you'll probably be surprised how many of your contacts do.
In the usa its just texting
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Interest in LibreOffice, the open-source alternative to Microsoft Office, is on the rise, with weekly downloads of its software package close to 1 million a week. Thatâs the highest download number since 2023.
âWe estimate around 200 million [LibreOffice] users, but itâs important to note that we respect usersâ privacy and donât track them, so we canât say for sure,â said Mike Saunders, an open-source advocate and a deputy to the board of directors at The Document Foundation.
LibreOffice users typically want a straightforward interface, Saunders said. âThey donât want subscriptions, and they donât want AI being âhelpfulâ by poking its nose into their work â it reminds them of Clippy from the bad old days,â he said.
There are genuine use cases for generative AI tools, but many users prefer to opt-in to it and choose when and where to enable it. âWe have zero plans to put AI into LibreOffice. But we understand the value of some AI tools and are encouraging developers to create ⊠extensions that use AI in a responsible way,â Saunders said.
This is a great news! I hope more people would use open-source software like Libreoffice.
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Don't forget to seed the torrents to help the servers.
And donate if you can
what version(s) are best to help out? Windows 64 bit?
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Blame UEFI problems to all the shit M$ makes. It's their fault.
While true, that unfortunately doesn't change the reality that many potential new users will run into issues like this
But hey, the more Linux users there are, the more manufactures will be forced to fix their shit
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The biggest issue people face when switching to Linux is finding Linux alternatives to their apps.
At this point it's much easier than it was in the 90s
That said, games can still cause issues.
When I switched to Linux I found out that the Linux alternative to most of my apps was just running my windows apps through proton or wine and they work fine. There are only one or two programs that I couldn't replace and I really don't care about them so
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Very few people will actually know how to do that.
Yes, but millenials have been doing it since we were kids. It's not that hard, just embrace the joy of naughty computing.
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what version(s) are best to help out? Windows 64 bit?
Probably, yes. You would assume the influx of users was mostly windows users.
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Been using openoffice for 15+ years, what made you switch to libreoffice?
Pretty much what everyone said, especially better import/export of microsoft document formats - but one of the things they didnât mention is that LibreOffice can be easily downloaded and installed from repositories. If I do a fresh linux install itâs just a command line or some other software package installer away. Super easy. I find LibreOffice runs smoother. Only downside is that sometimes it takes a while to load.
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Yeah I love LibreOfficeâs customisability including sidebar etc, but OnlyOffice just performs a lot better and handles the most common formats better for me
Heck yeah, OnlyOffice gang
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Interest in LibreOffice, the open-source alternative to Microsoft Office, is on the rise, with weekly downloads of its software package close to 1 million a week. Thatâs the highest download number since 2023.
âWe estimate around 200 million [LibreOffice] users, but itâs important to note that we respect usersâ privacy and donât track them, so we canât say for sure,â said Mike Saunders, an open-source advocate and a deputy to the board of directors at The Document Foundation.
LibreOffice users typically want a straightforward interface, Saunders said. âThey donât want subscriptions, and they donât want AI being âhelpfulâ by poking its nose into their work â it reminds them of Clippy from the bad old days,â he said.
There are genuine use cases for generative AI tools, but many users prefer to opt-in to it and choose when and where to enable it. âWe have zero plans to put AI into LibreOffice. But we understand the value of some AI tools and are encouraging developers to create ⊠extensions that use AI in a responsible way,â Saunders said.
Iâve gradually been switching over. The UI is somewhat confusing in my experience- but the MSO UX+UI is consistently getting much, much worse as time passes
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Very few people will actually know how to do that.
Donating is easy, just follow the url on the homepage. /s
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Interest in LibreOffice, the open-source alternative to Microsoft Office, is on the rise, with weekly downloads of its software package close to 1 million a week. Thatâs the highest download number since 2023.
âWe estimate around 200 million [LibreOffice] users, but itâs important to note that we respect usersâ privacy and donât track them, so we canât say for sure,â said Mike Saunders, an open-source advocate and a deputy to the board of directors at The Document Foundation.
LibreOffice users typically want a straightforward interface, Saunders said. âThey donât want subscriptions, and they donât want AI being âhelpfulâ by poking its nose into their work â it reminds them of Clippy from the bad old days,â he said.
There are genuine use cases for generative AI tools, but many users prefer to opt-in to it and choose when and where to enable it. âWe have zero plans to put AI into LibreOffice. But we understand the value of some AI tools and are encouraging developers to create ⊠extensions that use AI in a responsible way,â Saunders said.
Is it just me, or do new office features seem kinda pointless or unnecessary?
I use libreoffice the same way I used microsoft office decades ago. Never really cared for 'advanced' or even 'intermediate' features because they are never necessary to what I'm doing.
I can't imagine that people who are more computer-illiterate than me getting significantly more involved in what should be simple and easy to use programs.
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Interest in LibreOffice, the open-source alternative to Microsoft Office, is on the rise, with weekly downloads of its software package close to 1 million a week. Thatâs the highest download number since 2023.
âWe estimate around 200 million [LibreOffice] users, but itâs important to note that we respect usersâ privacy and donât track them, so we canât say for sure,â said Mike Saunders, an open-source advocate and a deputy to the board of directors at The Document Foundation.
LibreOffice users typically want a straightforward interface, Saunders said. âThey donât want subscriptions, and they donât want AI being âhelpfulâ by poking its nose into their work â it reminds them of Clippy from the bad old days,â he said.
There are genuine use cases for generative AI tools, but many users prefer to opt-in to it and choose when and where to enable it. âWe have zero plans to put AI into LibreOffice. But we understand the value of some AI tools and are encouraging developers to create ⊠extensions that use AI in a responsible way,â Saunders said.
It's like this meme:
Alternative to Photoshop: Cracked Photoshop
Alternative to Office: cracked officeXD
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Interest in LibreOffice, the open-source alternative to Microsoft Office, is on the rise, with weekly downloads of its software package close to 1 million a week. Thatâs the highest download number since 2023.
âWe estimate around 200 million [LibreOffice] users, but itâs important to note that we respect usersâ privacy and donât track them, so we canât say for sure,â said Mike Saunders, an open-source advocate and a deputy to the board of directors at The Document Foundation.
LibreOffice users typically want a straightforward interface, Saunders said. âThey donât want subscriptions, and they donât want AI being âhelpfulâ by poking its nose into their work â it reminds them of Clippy from the bad old days,â he said.
There are genuine use cases for generative AI tools, but many users prefer to opt-in to it and choose when and where to enable it. âWe have zero plans to put AI into LibreOffice. But we understand the value of some AI tools and are encouraging developers to create ⊠extensions that use AI in a responsible way,â Saunders said.
I have a job that involves working with spreadsheets. I have Librecalc at home and both Libre and MSOffice at work. I have also had a college course about using Excel specifically. Both really can do mostly the same things but because MS does everything in a specific (backwards) way, people trained on MS who are not otherwise "computer people" can't cope with needing to unlearn and relearn. So the end result is paraprofessionals are locked in.
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You wonât regret it.
I did. It was mostly ... confusing. The scenes were uninnovative, boring, and ?too-american.
I didn't like the first series, and would've quit it at episode 3 or so but I ended up without internet access for a couple of days and the whole series downloaded... It got better.
But yeah, life's too short for TV shows that take time to be taken on faith. And if you did finish the first series and still not like it, more power to you.
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Will do! Do you have any specific communities you recommend for asking for help in Linux / self hosting type stuff?
Here are a couple I like:
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So cool! So you basically kept windows in one part of your machine and ran pop os on the rest? Really cool idea!
It's a bit easier if you have a separate drive that Linux can own.
