LibreOffice actually works 365 days a year

Now that we are all wielding AI, would we finally have it render the documents the same way as Office 364.2?

Define "works"

it works so well, you have to export your docs to Microsoft Word format in order for them to have any value.

This is the application screenshot greeting visitors on the official LibreOffice homepage:

https://www.libreoffice.org/media/screenshot_writer_hero.png

Can we judge a book by its cover?

That's embarassingly ignorant for an IT professional: Offline applications have 100% uptime? And what about the platform and infrastructure they run on? The question is, what has more uptime?:

A. Your local application run on your local platform; downloaded and installed by you/local IT staff; maintained, updated, and bug diagnosis/resolution done by you/local IT 40 hrs/week, who have very little expertise or resources, by vendor tech support maybe slightly better, or (if you luckily get their attention) by vendor engineers with almost zero direct access to your systems.

B. Hosted application run at highly resourced data centers with power, redundancy, etc. far beyond what most users can imagine; operated, updated, and fixed 24/7/365 by the actual application engineers with direct access to the system. It does add an Internet connection, which is a point of failure, between you and the application.

In almost every case, B is the answer to uptime. There are other reasons not to use hosted systems (customization needs, licensing costs, highly confidential data, unreliable Internet connection, etc.) but uptime isn't one of them.

Anyone who says 'system 1 is down right now and system 2 is up, so system 2 has better uptime' is not even trying.

In other news, Gentoo has been working 24/7. Come to think of it, every distro has been working 24/7*. This will be The Year of LibreOffice! This time, finally, msft really shot themselves in the foot and the masses are gonna download and setup their own word processors and spreadsheets.

(*) Well, unless some dork decides to do xyz because of abc due to the shape of the stars in relation to the moon.

lol

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It's pretty good. No complaints!

I couldn't launch LibreOffice for like, 3 days, earlier this year after a botched ArchLinux upgrade that moved some libraries it needed.

It's a bad look to kick someone when they are down (literally and figuratively). Every company has outages.