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   LibreOffice (libreoffice@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 20:30:47 JST LibreOffice

   400 million downloads of #LibreOffice since we started! More and more people are moving to the office suite that respects your privacy, doesn't mine your data, and doesn't force AI onto your workflow: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/01/30/400-million-downloads-and-counting/ #foss #opensource #freesoftware

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     Paolo Amoroso (amoroso@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 20:36:41 JST Paolo Amoroso

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     👆 Congrats @libreoffice on achieving 400 million downloads of the LibreOffice desktop productivity suite.

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 20:49:48 JST 翠星石

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     • bip
     @bipartisan Typical mastodon post.
     
     Image being unable to comprehend that for software to be professional, it cannot have any antifeatures that would cause it to stop working randomly and demand an account login or license key.
     
     LibreOffice is plenty professional as it tends to actually work - the only issue you'll have is with Visual Basic scripts programmed for Excel or Word that rely on bugs to work (most users don't have such VB problem).
     
     
     It appears that most of the count is windows or macos downloads, as most LiGNUx users just use a package manager, which doesn't get included in the count.
     
     @libreoffice Why does the download page say "Linux", for GNU/Linux binaries?
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     bip (bipartisan@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 20:49:49 JST bip

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     @libreoffice

     Nice, but still not a professional office suite that can handle the tasks needed for one of those. Sorry.

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 02:20:06 JST Miakoda

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     @libreoffice

     I don't need an office suite often, but when I do, it's LibreOffice!

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 02:20:40 JST Miakoda

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     • bip

     @bipartisan

     @libreoffice

     What is it that LibreOfficr can't do that MS Office can?

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     LibreOffice (libreoffice@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 06:41:53 JST LibreOffice

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     • Scubyw

     @Scubyw If you tried it many years ago, then why not try it again 😉 It's difficult to chase the moving targets of Microsoft's .docx "transitional" format but we have hundreds of compatibility improvements in every major release...

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     Scubyw (scubyw@mastodon.nz)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 06:41:54 JST Scubyw

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     @libreoffice I tried it (many) years ago and had difficulties with the conversion to .docx etc. I needed this in my communications with clients as not many (if any) were using Linux. Not sure if that problem still exists. At the time, it got to cumbersome and Microsoft 'forced me' to stick with office.