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So I was just looking at my artwork on my 13 year old family desktop and found out that Libreoffice was on the homescreen. I was SH9CKED to see that since me and my family probably didn't even know a single bit of Libreoffice

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[–] KssioAug@piefed.zip 6 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Am I missing something? The thread doesn't make any sense to me. The desktop wallpaper seems to be Win11's default, and as other users noted Discord and Libre Office v7.5 are not 13yo. The hardware could be 13yo, but then what?

[–] MisterFred@reddthat.com 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Libreoffice must've auto updated itself until 7.5, my parents updated the OS version, and I must've downloaded Discord for something I didn't aftaully want to do

[–] KssioAug@piefed.zip 6 points 12 hours ago

That's a lot of 'must have'.

Windows 11 requires TPM 2, late 2017 CPU at least, and UEFI, which means that your parents couldn't have updated to it without circumventing the requirements. If they did circumvent it, they can't be that technically unaware, which means they probably would have heard and possibly used LibreOffice and could have installed it themselves.

That, or, that's not a 13yo hardware.

And it's unlikely, to say the least, that Libre Office just popped up there. So, I don't see the point of the thread and there's a lot of unlikely scenarios that makes it most likely bullshit.

[–] Hubi@feddit.org 41 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Libreoffice 7.5 came out around 2023, so it must've been updated more recently.

[–] mst@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 18 hours ago

Discord came out 2015.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 day ago

Libreoffice 7.5 came out around 2023

Libreoffice back then!!???

i must be getting old since 2023 feels like yesterday. :p

[–] aim_at_me@lemmy.nz 6 points 1 day ago

Discord isnt 13 years old. Some more context?

[–] linkerbaan@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What 20 years of no UX improvements does

[–] robotElder2@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

You'll take my early 2000s aesthetic word processor from my cold dead hands! Libre Office still looks like that for the same reason sharks are still shaped like that. No improvement necessary, any change could only make it worse.

[–] cenariodantesco@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Murcury, Moranda... tell us more

[–] MisterFred@reddthat.com 2 points 1 day ago

Hey. Spelling-wise I wasn't the best back then. I am not from a mainly Engkish-speaking region

[–] squirrel@cake.kobel.fyi 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yep, it's one of those pieces of software that you forgot you had installed. But when you need it, it's right there.

[–] SchadeMarmelade@feddit.org 15 points 1 day ago

As all Software should. No notifications, no bloated size. No reminder to set it as default when you start it.

[–] redparadise@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

My country's national curriculum used to teach openoffice instead of microsoft office because of uh sorry but I forgot my years old computer syllabus, India probably has migrated to Libreoffice by now surely, I still have a couple of screenshots I believe, or maybe the email of my project is lying around somehwere.

[–] WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today 6 points 1 day ago

I think that's roughly the version Google still supplies to anyone who sets up the Debian-based Linux option on their Chromebooks. Google doesn't bother updating that shit.

[–] Jestzer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Yup, I first installed it in 2011.