I was prompted by this announcement to download it. An office suite came installed by default with this machine, but I want to support their numbers and start promoting it to others.
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What the hell man. Who is still funding this bubble?
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when i'm finally working again and able to donate to some projects, libreoffice is definitely getting a little love.
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I love LibreOffice.
My only complaint using it every day at work is [a complaint against microsoft] how much my company uses microsoft products (but won't shell out for office licenses for 90% of staff) and microsoft purposefully makes their shit not display or read Libre files correctly to try to keep their grubby monopoly claws dug into everyone.
My IT staff is too stupid to send announcements out to a BCC list and causes reply-all waves about once a month so I am not holding out hope that we make any progress as a company towards smart computing.
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Glad Libreoffice is getting more attention; started using it as soon i went to Linux a couple of months ago. And now, ive been slowly getting my mother on the FOSS bandwagon cause shes getting tired of MAC
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Oh what a dystopia we live in. We went from companies declaring they have AI as a feature added to their product, to companies declaring they don't have AI added to their products to promote them. A clear sign AI is complete slop.
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It has totally nothing to do with Office being a pile of subscription based dogshit
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I've been using OpenOffice for forever, before it was cool
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The school I go to demands we use Google Docs (or Office at home) for our work. Boowomp, I'll still use LibreOffice. Fuck GenAI.
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It's wild to me that I only ever heard of LO just two years ago. (When they decided to paywall notepad it was the last straw for me.)
Feels so so good to ditch Microsoft products.
LibreOffice is great and nice to see it getting some attention.
LibreOffice is the good stuff if you need an office suite. It can do everything you might actually need and the price is right. But I'm old and retired and no longer have a need for a full office suite. I find AbiWord and Gnumeric all I need anymore. It kind of makes me sad to do so, but I uninstall LibreOffice these days.
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For a few years I had a subscription to Office. I thought I was more productive.
But I.... probably wasn't?
It's hard to qualify. LibreOffice always felt like an office suite. "You can do things here." Boom. I did it.
Office was like "But wait! There's a zillion more things you can do! Until your subscription expires at least."
But then I got curious. How exactly do I do these zillion new things in LibreOffice??? They claim to be mostly document compatible, so how do I do the same stuff?
Aha. I can actually do this shit. Turns out most of this stuff was very minor spreadsheet thingamaijggery. Want to lock rows or columns? It's slightly different. Want to do weird icons for values? It's slightly different. Etc.
Very important learning experience!
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I've written books and papers in Writer. It does the job well.
LibreOffice is great and glad they are getting the shine they deserve.
Intresting feature they have without implementing it
On the other hand, openai's codex literally bundles in libreoffice https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/1/codex-libreoffice/
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I like LibreOffice, it's good
I love LibreOffice. It is a blast to the past to use it (for better or worse), and each app is incredibly flexible. I used it for creating practice plans last year, and the whiplash from Notion/Logseq and other "friendly" editing tools was tough to get used to. I wonder if there's room for an extension or built-in mode to present a simple or focus mode. It's been a while so I feel like I'd have to get back to using it daily to collect my thoughts on this 😅
LibreOffice also has a nice webdav integration so you can tie a Nextcloud account in and automatically checkout and edit documents in a multi user environment. Poor mans Sharepoint.
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I don't mind AI, but I hate it being baked into every application with its own subscription to access. Just give me an MCP server to connect to when/if I decide I want to use AI with your application.
Firefox has local AI built-in. I really wish people would stop referring to silicon valley technocrat cloud offerings as AI. AI has existed for 70 years. Plenty of academics and innovators that did the hard work to improve science and research are opposed to unchecked capitalists trying to exploit it for their oppressive endeavors. AI isn't inherently good or bad. If you hate technocratic tech bros then just say that.
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