Yes a pain to see guys who uses a calculator for simple maths.
Or to see guys with much higher education on paper who are unable to make simple presentations, simple word files and such.

Microsoft is out of the question. It costs money. And I do not care that I got a free windows 10 upgraded license. When I sell my notebook it will be gone anyway. SAme for Office. I just do not use it because it costs money. I even know engineers who are too stupid to use linux. They use a pirated windows with other tools, and than how do i do htis how do i do that. that guy did not even knew what a battery was in his lenovo notebook. How it looked like and that. The best was, that windows notebook was in such a bad shape, that the guy was unable to use his presentation on a vga beamer lol. after 30 minutes waiting someone went home and got another proper setup windows notebook to start the presentation. Well he managed to put some annoying music to his not so well shot holiday pictures

I use OpenOffice on win since it is maintained by Apache. I stopped using it when it was owned by Oracle. But I still use Libre on my ubuntu since it comes installed anyway since my use of office is very limited.

Actually, I like to install AbiWord as a lightweight alternative, on linux and Windows. Being retired, I don't have to deal with elaborate formatting requirements most of the time. When I do have such a need, I go with LO on both platforms.

I have been using OpenOffice for well over 8 years now and I like it. I use it at work, instead of ms (which they pay for), and at home. So, I have no interest or time to evaluate any other application especially something with the same roots.

I never really thought about LO vs. OO vs. MS Word vs. Wordstar, etc. I adopted LO, because it's the default on most Linux systems. The criticisms of LO I've read here are trivial. I like it. I've written 10 books with it! It works fine. I've never had a problem with a spreadsheet. The presentation software has always worked perfectly for me. There are some glitches, but overall it's pretty good.

I clicked on
LO most of the time

simply because there was no option for simply LO (all the time).

I no longer use anything but Linux but I do maintain a Win machine for someone else. They are perfectly happy with LO.

OOo is really not well supported and hasn't been for years. Really pretty much not well supported for a decade.

LO version 5 was really the first version that was really new stuff as it took that long to simply apply bug fixes that had been neglected for so long by OOo.

Version 6 is really looking very, very good.

As a grumpy geezer myself I can understand the problems that came up within the OOo dev community (paid devs) simply because the older ones couldn't really just drop out and start fresh like the younger ones wanted to and did. But Oracle had pretty much destroyed OOo by not giving it enough resources anyway. I can understand not wanting to just up and quit and damaging the pension you were waiting for.

Libre Office is the result of a very badly needed fork of OOo that should be supported. It is really the only branch of the old OOo that is working on being a modern office application.

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