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LibreOffice 7.6 has reached 1.5 million downloads! (blog.documentfoundation.org)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/4802776

As you know, this will be the final version of LO to have Semantic Versioning; all future releases will have Calendar Versioning.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (4 children)

sadly, LibreWrite still has random crashes, and omg their auto bullet system is totally hopeless.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If you could recreate the crashes and get those steps into a bug report that would be great for the developers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I second this!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I just wish they would get enough funding (governmental?) to make it more like the g suite, which is based on it. UX is still a nightmare.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I like it just fine with the tabbed interface

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (3 children)

My s/o has regular crashes in Windows when I don't remember when I last had one in Linux. Her version is less often updated than mine (I have to lay my hands on her machine to do it manually) but the problem tends to persist, although maybe a bit less lately.

I suspect that not all platforms perform the same.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Check out the Chocolatey package manager for Windows. It makes updates for all our common packages available through git/yum/brew easily installed/updated on Windows. PowerShell will never be anywhere near as nice as sitting at a proper linux terminal, but Chocolatey makes the Windows experience slightly more bearable when you need to use it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Thanks for the pointer, I'll look into that.

I haven't really used Windows seriously since before they switched to NT, so I just have no idea what tools are available for it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I just use winget to update Libreoffice since it’s already there in windows 10/11.

“Winget update LibreOffice” in a power shell terminal.

Updating it manually sucks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

it does not crash for me in windows.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Hm. According to you and others it seems to be even more random than I thought.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I use it on windows daily for work reports. No crashes. Maybe depends on what features you’re using.

On Linux I’ve found that the flatpak is more reliable than other delivery formats for whatever reason.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I have never had librewrite crash but I also don't do use it extensively. Like maybe a doc a month.