It’s fine for most things

The issue is that it doesn’t come with a keyboard shortcut scheme that matches Microsoft, so any company that does a trial with LibreOffice will see a massive productivity drop right away as everyone’s muscle memories become obsolete, and you don’t want to tell Nancy the Dispatcher that she has to forget and relearn all the Excel shortcuts she’s been using for the last 20 years. She would give you a piece of her mind, once she’s back from her smoke.

Not bad, I use it regularly but I’m not a power user. It doesn’t have the ten million and one things the other one does, the ones you never use. It’s quite light on resources. Not as intrusive either.

Give it a spin.

Always has been, the issue is compatibility with MS. It works like 95% of the time on normal stuff, and maybe 10% of the time on more complex stuff. But outside of compatibility with MS it is 100% great.

I find onlyoffice to be more compatible with MS

The pivot charts and tables drive me kinda nuts. Typically I have a dataset I’ve prepared in python and find pivot tables faster and easier than matplotlib. In excel I make a Data tab and connect it to an external CSV, then in another tab pick my filters, columns and rows, and then chart type. Then I iterate - run the Python again to make a new CSV and just press refresh in excel and I get updated visualisations. This workflow just doesnt work for me in Libre Office. Can’t figure out how to live link CSVs. Pivot tables are OK but oubot charts are not a thing - have to manually point them at a dataset and there’s no nice panel to choose columns and rows.

I dunno, maybe it’s just I gotta learn a different way but honestly just easier to use a windows VM for this stuff.

To answer the question, despite the few bugs and few formatting issues, YES, it is a decent replacement for MS Office.

It’s missing that built-in game where you explore a maze of stateful quasi-menus looking for a tool/option that you know you’ve used before.

You should there is also OnlyOffice, which has better compatibility with Microsoft file formats (and uses Microsoft formats by default). Its also generally good, and open source.

I use both OnlyOffice and LibreOffice on different computers. Both are good.

Calc crashes all the bloody time. want to drag a worksheet tab? crash. want to drag a field to a pivot table column? crash. want to copy a bit of a formula? crash. want to exhale? crash.

plus it has no support for tables, xlookup, or power query. it’s like an unstable version of excel from 1997.

when it comes to spreadsheets, excel is the best in twrms of stability and features and google sheets is next. calc is a distant third.

whatever they have to replace word, too, pales in comparison because it’s so much more finicky to manage styles and formatting. but it’s apple’s Pages that’s surprisingly the best–most festure-packed-- word processing application.

their powerpoint replacement is functional but doesn’t contain all the features of ms powerpoint.

LibreOffice is amazing on Linux, ngl though it is a bit unpolished on both Windows and especially Mac.

Haven’t used it in a while. But it has good support. And is definitely fine for most basic usage. Just give it a try eh.

Its pretty good for most office users. You can select the office theme and ribbon toolbar layout and it’s pretty familiar feeling.

It’s the right side of the java nightmare that it was. Much much better but until that java runtime disappears …

It’s my daily driver and is the central application with which I work.

It’s OK but I struggle with Charts and Pivot tables in Calc. Excel is just better.

Libreoffice is like the 2003 MS office but better, which makes it superior to anything in the market right now. Onlyoffice is number 2, as it has greater compatibility to MS office but it also imitates MS office, which makes it worse to me but easier to switch for someone addicted to Microsoft products.