Libre Office: A Free Alternative to Microsoft Office. They Wish.
We are told by reviews that Libre Office is better than Open Office, which for years has been a free alternative to Microsoft Office.
Why is Libre Office better? Because there are more coders working on it. "But when Oracle bought Sun, legions of developers abandoned OpenOffice, and instead threw in with a forked version called LibreOffice."
Then there is this.
"They have been coding like mad for years now while OpenOffice.org was checking licenses," he added. "Really, OpenOffice.org was good, but it seriously lacked useful features like SVG, which Sun sat on for years."LibreOffice, on the other hand, "made it a much higher priority," Pogson noted. "They also threw out dead/sub-optimal code, so LibreOffice is pretty smooth these days."
Then there is this.
Since Oracle is despised in the open-source community, and most of the time for a good reason, OpenOffice stopped being a program of choice for people who wanted a free office suite, and it became LibreOffice.
So, Libre Office has better coding. It has better code-writers.
That's why Open Office is better, at least for now.
I tried to download Libre Office. It is easy to download Open Office. But Libre Office is not easy to download. You first have to download a pre-installation program.
This is a classic sign of coders' shortcuts. Any online program that does not download, install, and open all by itself was designed by lazy programmers. It's always a bad sign.
There are no written instructions on how to download the program and install it. There is no YouTube video.
I downloaded both. Nothing happened: no icon on my desktop, nothing. This sends a message: "If you're not a techie, get lost."
There were these options on the home page.
Some fine day, Libre Office may be better than Open Office, but not yet. Open Office is user-friendly. Libre Office is not ready for prime time. Close, but no cigar. "Missed it by that much."