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@mkj @hellomiakoda @jt_rebelo @bipartisan @libreoffice

Writing beautiful, stable software is not the sole domain of big companies. A comparison against any of them is because they're doing something, better, that we could also do.

I am definitely not advocating for ribbon, or anything MSFT, ever. I'm not advocating for any other suite, tbh, I'm lamenting that I wish this one had better UI/UX and was more stable.

@mkj @bipartisan @jt_rebelo @libreoffice

I adore Libre, I've been a user of this codebase since StarOffice. But...

While unhelpful, he's not _wrong_. Libre needs needs needs to find designers and work on the UI/UX, and it can't just be pawned off to the problem reporters to help. This is an office suite - the vast majority are not coders of any stripe, and never will be. Take a look at this completely vanilla install of Libre on Mac. Then it crashed while I was changing settings.

@jt_rebelo @mkj @bipartisan @libreoffice

And here it is again. *I* can, and do, do those things (and I'm not asking for help). None of that is a reasonable ask for the average user, nor is it their fault or setup that causes this suite to look or act poorly.

And yes, one can expect consistency and stability across multiple platforms and setups, or do you think every other application that achieves this is somehow magic?

I'm not throwing shade at the Libre team - a suite like this is a massive undertaking, and star/open/libre has been my go-to for literally decades, whenever possible. But until there's some UI/UX modernization and stability improvement, for which you can *not* push responsibility back onto the userbase, then LO will remain that suite that people use when there's no other option.