Tbh I get them mixed up every time I talk about them. I don’t know what’s installed on my computers and I will most likely get them mixed up again in the future. I look it up every time but also forget it just as often.
I got the same issue with OpenCloud and NextCloud.
Maybe I’m the problem…
But I try
You mean OwnCloud, don’t you?
Soon to be LibreCloud /s
There I go again…
Is this OOO from back in the early 2000s?
Yes and no?
Stuff happened in the early 10’s, and the community forked LibreOffice which became the spiritual successor to OOO, while the OO trademark got transferred to Apache.
Whats funny is the people mentioning open office then saying libre office is not up to snuff and when they don’t seem to realize the difference you know they have not used it in awhile. I mean like over a decade likely if your mentioning open office.
Odd, I didn’t think I was there in the first place.
Oh yeah, i found that on my mastodon account so i copied that link instead of the real instance. But i updated the post now to use correct link
LibreOffice may not be the prettiest or the most stable, but dammit, it gets the job done
LibreOffice’s UI is fine on Linux, on Windows not so much. OnlyOffice is a good alternative for Windows
I think it’s better on Windows. It feels like a good old school Win9x app
OnlyOffice is good too if you want a more modern interface.
afaik onlyoffice is russian, and has contracts with the russian govt and military
It’s free and open source. Someone could always fork it. I have been using OO.o and LO for years now but lately found that OO is better overall.
russian government and entities closer to it would use MyOffice (МойОфис). But usually russian organizations can choose any foss solution: LibreOffice, OpenOffice and, of course, OnlyOffice.
Fuck
right? :(
is that like onlyfans but like linkedin?
Sure. Whatever helps you sleep at night.
Finally got my partner to use Libreoffice but complain about ui and not having all of the make it pretty options excel has. Losing formatting between the 2 programs was hardest hurdle to get a transition.
Doubt Common folk like me would even notice.
I wonder why Apache continues to support OpenOffice. Its barely moved since 2014 and hasn’t even had a security update since 2023. They could archive it as an active project (keep the code available for those who want it) and redirect most users who land on the OpenOffice site to LibreOffice.
If Apache archived all their dead projects, they wouldn’t have any project left.
What? If nothing else, Airflow is massively used. Kafka is also quite very popular, I see those two very, very often.
Even good old httpd, while having lost its crown to nginx, is still powers like 1/3 of the web.
News of Apache death seem greatly exaggerated…
There’s a ton more too. It’s quite surprising how many projects that have. Isn’t Cassandra theirs too?
Tomcat is dead?
I’m not sure you understand the scale
Let’s just call it The Office
Brb, forking LibreOffice into a new spinoff
Officeoffice
We should start recommending StarOffice! :D
Word Perfect!
Lotus123!
If I ever recommended openoffice it was just because I confused the names of the two products.
My dad uses LibreOffice for years, still call it OpenOffice 😂.
I… I was today years old.
I honestly thought LibreOffice was some rebranded name. It’s been a while since I’ve used any of them.
So many programs use those prefixes in Linux so it just gets confusing
I am still more inclined to follow the “old Linux nerds rulebook” and keep recommending to learn LaTex ;-)
LyX and LaTeX and you can really impress your lecturer with magnificent postscript documents…at least you could…
Is microsoft office is any better?
Its a $129.99 a year subscription right.
The point is libreoffice is still being maintained.
No, office is no better.
LibreOffice can open any office format document and save in that format.
Yeah, in addition to the other million benefits. Like being much lighter, isn’t a giant spyware, decent scripting engine, covers all features that office has and more (it had PDF export way earlier), … My bachelor degree dissertation was in libreoffice in 2013. Since then, nobody can convince me to go back to Office.
Sorry I forget sometimes. It’s just that OpenOffice is a way better name. “Libre” is a pretty uncommon word in English and LibreOffice sounds like astrology software.
Sorry, English is not my 1st language, neither is Spanish (or wherever “libre” came from), but “libreoffice” sounds much better to me.
yeah i agree the name is terrible.
Unfortunately, corporations have bastardized the term “open” (looking at you, OpenAI) trying to get the credit Open Source software has earned.
Libre was a good choice to emphasize “free as in speech”.
IIRC the LibreOffice fork happened years before the public had any awareness of OpenAI (and when OpenAI was, in fact, publishing open models).
Not if you speak Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, French, or Romanian.
Which combined is more people than just English speakers.
English speaker here who knows like two phrases in Spanish and an okay amount of Japanese, yet I don’t get why English speakers don’t understand Libre.
Libre --> Liberty
Nacho Libre a movie about Lucha Libre
Are we really that bad at learning about other cultures and languages? 🫠
I don’t even know if I pronounce it right. Is it like libré or is it more like a lobster-tiger hybrid? Or a Lemur-cobra.hybtid?
Also, if they’re watching, the themes still make the UI all funky unless it’s on the default—at least for Calc, anyway.
Libre will really only ever be a French word to me so that’s how I always thought it would be pronounced. With an Americanish R sound.
Leeb-roffice
librɑɔfəs for you IPA enjoyers
I say leeb-ruh, like it’s a Spanish loanword.
Lee-bruh is definitely the way to go since it fluidly connects to the first syllable of “office”. If you do “lib-ray” or “lee-bray”, you’re forcing a ton of unnecessary annunciation on yourself.
Agreed, but sounds too much like “Libra Office” ♎️⚖️
bruh
I’ve always pronounced it lib-ray
Think “Zebra” (NA English) but with an ‘L’.
Ah, not it’s again!
At risk of going of topic, is this a Millennial meme?
Like, I really hope younger folks have seen this.
I still occasionally slip on that myself. It’s the first non-Microsoft office suite I used and it’s burned into my memory.
Same here … I started off for about four or five years on OpenOffice until it devolved into some weird open/private organization and everyone revolted and it turned into LibreOffice. I held onto OpenOffice for a while and then realized the LibreOffice was more open source system … but you’re right, whenever I look up anything as an Microsoft alternative, OpenOffice is the first to come to mind.
