The histogram says it all. First, rapid growth between 2011 and 2014 to 30 million downloads, despite the fierce hostility of the project created to kill LibreOffice.
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I work in IT in a small org, we have MS VL contract, I could have any version of office I wanted and in fact have on service machines but on my personal box I installed LO and it just does everything I need it to do.
I remember when the advantages of free software were somewhat more abstract, when the prospect of users being exploited via data collection was not really something people thought about in more than hypothetical terms.
Times change, the machine grows and it's a damn good thing the open source community has been keeping watch.
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.
@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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Now, can you make a program like the 2007 version of OneNote, please?
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Times change, the machine grows and it's a damn good thing the open source community has been keeping watch.
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I just hope that soon the Korean grammar check will start working again LOL
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