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We’re pleased to announce the release of LibreOffice 26.2 πŸ₯³ (blog.documentfoundation.org)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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[–] 60 points 9 months ago

I took 5+ years off from Libre, returning last year. It's come a long way and has fully replaced my need for Google Docs and MS Office. If you were turned off in the past, it might be worth revisiting.

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    [–] 45 points 9 months ago* (6 children)

    What’s New in LibreOffice 26.2

    Markdown import and export features. Improved performance and responsiveness across the suite, making large documents open, edit, and save more smoothly. Enhanced compatibility with documents created in proprietary and open core office software, reducing formatting issues and surprises. Refined user interface behavior for a cleaner, more consistent experience. Expanded support for open standards, reinforcing long-term access to documents. Hundreds of bug fixes and stability improvements contributed by the global LibreOffice community.

    See the Release Notes for the full list of new features.

    Markdown, great!

    Also, I'm curious about the UI refinement.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Also, I'm curious about the UI refinement.

    In the release notes you've linked, there's a heading called User Interface. It's a fair number of small QOL improvements.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I see nothing about making the scroll bar static, with buttons, which is impossible to have on Linux--for an application designed around scrolling pages.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    This strikes me as an odd comment. Did you have a specific reason to expect that 26.2 would include this, such as an enhancement request that you'd logged (or had been following) via their community channels?

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    Um, no. But word processors are centered around scrolling, and all that's available is a mobile scroll, which auto-hides and has no up and down buttons. I cannot possibly be the only person who finds this problematic. Hard pass.

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    • [–] 40 points 9 months ago

    This project has never been more relevant in light of the recent acceleration of enshitification over at Microslop. Might be time to donate a few bucks.

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    [–] 13 points 9 months ago

    Great news! Markdown has been one of the most requested features

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    [–] 8 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Good to see focus on performance and responsiveness. On cachyOS I have laggy scrolling through text documents. Will have to test later

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Same via NixOS, I use high-resolution scrolling but Libreoffice seems worse than normal scrolling. I think it's using XWayland for some reason but I really don't have time to unearth what the difference is between the libreoffice and libreoffice-qt-fresh packages and if any of them can actually use Wayland.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I also had it, any chance that the last poi here In the troubleshooting fixes it for you as well?

    https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/LibreOffice#KDE_Plasma/GNOME_%20_Wayland_with_or_without_fractional_scaling_results_in_terrible_lag_when_scrolling

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    • [–] 7 points 9 months ago

    I use Libreoffice for all of my business admin, from invoices to pricing models. It's fantastic software.

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    [–] 4 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    no, too much bloat. better off using latex which beats it by far.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Or Typst. I don't want to learn Typst, but it looks way better than Latex.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I used to maintain my resume in latex. I switched to typist. I vastly prefer it. The syntax is much easier to deal with. It really, to me, feels like a worthy successor

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    For sure, that's what I see. I'm just 'locked in' with Latex since all my colleagues use it and I'm used to a lot of packages there. At some point I'd like to try Typst out but now is not a good time.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    I had the same idea to write my CV in Latex, but then realized it's not such a great idea. I wanted to keep it down to 2 pages, so I ended up having to do a lot of manual formatting (font size, margins, spacing), and the whole point of Latex is that you're supposed to let the typesetter do the formatting for you. So I switched back to Libreoffice.

    But if I had a long-form CV, ie. an academic-style CV where you list all publications, conference talks, etc. with no regard to length, then Latex would be ideal for that.

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    • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Actually started using this at work too now, as the entire file menu part of Word 365 is an utter garbage fire.

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    [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    Does Linux get a damn normal scroll bar yet?

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    • [–] -5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 child)

    the free and open source office suite trusted by millions of users around the world.

    Do I use Libre office? Yes. Do I trust it? Absolutely not (in the sense that I don't think they're stealing my data, but wow is the user experience a buggy mess)

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    [–] 13 points 9 months ago

    Honestly, Markdown support does make LibreOffice 26.2 quite useful for working with those files.

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    [–] 11 points 9 months ago

    Very curious about the markdown support. I'm not sure how much I would use it, but its pretty cool.

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    [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    The (tabbed) ui on macos looks so much better now!

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