Never liked when companies started moving into "subscription" based business. Stopped using all software that need subscription to use.

LibreOffice does what you can do with MS Office. Maybe some differences here and there, but it gets the job done.

I use it day in, day out. My 'provided' work device is a Thinkpad running Ubuntu, so any local work is on Libreoffice. Same when working from home on my personal devices (a mixture of Mint and Ubuntu) - Libreoffice does probably 98% of what is needed; it's only pre-written stuff that my employer supplies with MS-specific macros that give me any bother.

If I need to get something into a 'real' Excel format (for example), then I'll just load the Libreoffice output into our workplace Office 365 online subscription and export back out... but more often than not the .xlsx / .docx / .pptx output is more than fine.

I'd say office productivity work is probably no more than 20-25% of my output; the rest being technical documentation (usually markdown format), code or lifecycle management stuff (e.g. code releases / acceptance testing / bug reporting - so plain text)... so while I'm not the biggest productivity software user, Libreoffice works just fine in the vast majority of cases.

majinga wrote on 2025-10-05, 12:44:

The good thing of 365 is that allow to work multiple users to work on the same document at the same time.
I think today we need an open format that take account that aspect.

OnlyOffice allows that, I think.