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LibreOffice is just as good nowadays
Does it do any of the Microsoft 365 features like versioning, collaboration / multi-editing and such? This has been a game changer for many corporate environments that used to rely on file servers and usb drives. I feel LibreOffice might be stuck in a previous decade of office software without this.
No, LibreOffice is way better nowadays.
And that is mainly thanks to MS Office having gotten way worse than before.
There is a long standing problem where LibreOffice becomes very slow when adding images. That hasn't been fixed, last I checked.
But thanks to MS Office now being slow all the time and also taking up way too much RAM, meaning that opening 4-5 Word+Excel documents on 8GB RAM means you are constantly using the page file (my exp. with Office 2015 back then), LibreOffice's problem is not a big deal any more.
Your experience might not match what I am saying, because I am comparing MS Office on Windows vs LibreOffice on Linux.
So your comparison is a 10 year old version of office on an old version of windows on old unknown to us hardware vs (I assume) the latest version of LibreOffice on (I also assume) newer hardware?
Office hasn’t gotten worse lol. It has got better and better with every release too. It’s the industry standard, and it isn’t a resource hog. No one should have 8GB of RAM in their pc in 2025 either.
Making no comparison is better than making your pointless one.
I am comparing a 10 year old version of Office on Windows 10 with a version of LibreOffice I used in the same week on that same computer on Linux.
My conclusion of "Office has gotten worse" comes from comparing the ability of MS Office 2015 on Win 10 on a Laptop with Core i7 6700H with 8GB DDR4 RAM vs MS Office 2007 on Windows 7 on a Core2Quad with 4GB DDR2 RAM (oh and an old SATA2 HDD here vs SATA3 7200RPM HDD on the laptop) and observing that they are able to open about the same amount of files before starting to hang.
In fact, at that time, I decided to use the old Desktop PC for that particular work, because it was working better in general and was more productive despite me having to keep it off the internet.
I am no longer making that comparison, because I don't use MS Office on my PC any more.
But I can say this, if I were making that comparison of LibreOffice of that time with MS Office 2007 (which would actually be much older), then LibreOffice would have lost.
And guess what saved my old 4GB DDR2 computer from becoming e-waste, making me still be able to use it when I want?
KDE Plasma. Yes, it works well on a system which I wouldn't even dare try installing Windows 10.