Honest question. In the era of collaborative document editing on browser-based platforms, who is using this software and what are they using it for? I work with documents for my job and it’s been literally decades since I used a local standalone word processor.
I need local font support far, far more often than I need collaborative editing. Plus, call me old, but I don’t like storing everything on a server in Virginia for Google to read.
Idunno, that might be approaching “one day of patchy electricity can change how you view computers vs mechanical typewriters”. Here people would likely use their mobile internet, especially if the company is paying their phone bill.
I’d say it depends on what you do and how much collaboration with other people is involved. I have always used standalone clients, and I’m not a fan anything web browser based (or cloud in general). I started using LibreCalc instead of Excel for my job a few months ago. Now that I got used to it, I love it. It loads faster, has regex out of the box. Excel has already become quite enshittified, in my opinion.
Yeah, mirroring the other comment here -it’s standalone app everytime for me. I’m a bit of a power user, so maybe it’s the extra functionality that just can’t be handled in a browser which already has 20 other tabs open, but live colab is … well, just not used that often.
Sure, we’ll be tweaking cells in a spreadsheet now & again, but my technical documents are done by one person, then reviewed (comments, track changes, etc) by others for the audit trail.
And I’m just not going to purchase a Microsoft product again.
But I will contribute to Open Source… ODF has done great things.
https://hub.docker.com/r/collabora/code/ This is for you
Probably not because it would need to be an off-the-peg solution with support included for my bosses to even begin to consider it. But I have heard of Collabora and I know it’s decent.
More in the running would be a cloud solution from the amazing Framasoft, including Framapad
None of this is to disparage LibreOffice, which apparently offers value to many people and that’s great.
I almost never use it, but if LibreOffice can come in handy a few times a year, why not at least keep it installed?
A lot of stuff is indeed browser based, so I probably spend more time in Firefox than in my code editor and terminal.
But LibreOffice is welcome to live on 0.1% of my disk space!
