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Ugh I hate office365 but holy shit I would not want to support libreoffice.
The FOSS scene really needs an office suite that doesn't feel like its from last century. People use Microsoft shit not only because its the only choice but because its actually usable for office tasks.
What's wrong with libreoffice, exactly?
Exactly? The interface is god awful, if you're running a dark theme then your icons will be unseeable (black on black) unless you enable experimental features. The interface is straight out of the early 2000s.
If I, a computer person, has so many issues with software normie office workers are going to use then they'll have a hell of a time using it. I'd definitely not wanna be the helpdesk people having to deal with endless calls about why they can't print their tps reports because they can't find the print icon.
Libreoffice had some steam when it first forked from OpenOffice but it ran out pretty quickly. Theres not been any meaningful features added and they can't even keep up with the frontend interface.
Also. It doesn't seem like the German gov announced any kind of large funding contributions to libreoffice so I have no idea how they plan on encouraging anyone to fix the issues they'll no doubt have.
@krolden @vort3 Libreoffice has like 6 different interfaces that you can pick from at startup, including one that is licmicking Office’s UI.
It also auto detects dark mode and auto sets icons to be the right theme, so, that criticism seems dated to me :)
Ironically, I prefer for LibreOffice to not follow my dark mode setting. I always want it to be light mode.