LibreOffice 24.8.4, optimised for the privacy-conscious user, is available for download - The Document Foundation Blog
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Berlin, 19 December 2024 – LibreOffice 24.8.4, the fourth minor release of the LibreOffice 24.8 family of the free open source, volunteer-supported office suite for Windows (Intel, AMD and ARM), MacOS (Apple and Intel) and Linux, is available at www.libreoffice.org/download. The release includes over 55 bug and regression fixes over LibreOffice 24.8.3 [1] to improve […]
  • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    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.

      • esa@discuss.tchncs.de
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        7 months ago

        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.

    • SayCyberOnceMore@feddit.ukEnglish
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      7 months ago

      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.

    • wasabi@lemmy.eco.br
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      7 months ago

      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.