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Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates (www.theregister.com)
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Should OS makers, like Microsoft, be legally required to provide 15 years of security updates?

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[–] bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works 1 points 15 hours ago

LibreOffice is okay for some stuff, but shows its limitations pretty quickly once you use it for more serious tasks.

  • Writer is the best of the suite and has deleted comments for me several times without ability to recover.
  • The spreadsheet is a toy compared to Excel spreadsheets used in pretty much any business.
  • The presentation software produces ugly results by default.

The only things LibreOffice has going for it, is the price and that the UI doesn’t change. LibreOffice has no good mobile apps.

Better alternatives to Microsoft Office are Google Docs etc. and Apple’s iWork suite. Both have good compatibility with Microsoft’s files and run great on mobile.

Google has ease of use, easy sharing and collaboration. Apple’s iWork has great usability and features and produces beautiful results by default. The suite comes free with every Apple device. Google Docs is free to use as well.

That’s of course ignoring the workhorse called Outlook. You can kind of approach its features with a handful of other applications, but won’t reach the same functionality.

LibreOffice has one unique application in its suite: Base local database. Microsoft Access and FileMaker used to very popular, but faded into the background over the last decade.