LibreOffice 26.8 Released with Many Nice Improvements

This is such an important project that I think I will setup a recurring monthly donation.

I mostly use Calc and I’ve held back donating because honestly it is not that good (irrational, I know). Specially if you’re an excel power-ish user.

But lately it has been satisfying all my personal spreadsheet needs. Even though it has major pain points. I’ve tried every other spreadsheet app in Linux and honestly they all suck.

I guess our best bet is to rally behind this project and hope it gets as good as Linux so that it really competes with office.

Kudos to the team and really excited to try the pivot tables calculated formulas. Pivot table feature parity is what I am missing the most!

I am very grateful for LibreOffice. Writer and Calc got me through college, and I use Calc on a nearly daily basis for keeping track of finances.

Years ago they felt unpolished and a bit pet-project-y, but now they feel like proper tools that stand up well.

I think for the business scene Excel will remain dominant for shear backwards compatibility, but for typical users there's no reason not to use it.

I used to think LibreOffice was too far behind the times to be relevant, but now I see a big new use case for people wanting to avoid LLM integrations/data exfiltration. I wish them much success!

LibreOffice is so great, It has evolved a lot, and it's so much better than the microslop alternative. I just reaally hope that more and more universities and institutions accept the .odt document format!

I got a good chuckle from the screenshot showing off Draft View “for distraction-free editing”.

I have been extensively using LibreOffice alongside office 2019 (using Massgrave) And it is converging more and more.

I use it as my day tool as a lawyer, I use writer and calc alongside office tools and i see formatting issues coming less and less. This is after me using it day for 3-4 years daily.

Every update makes improvements.

Sure its "slow" at features but I'm not interested in "ai" features so it's fine.

It inherits all problems of desktop office, collaboration is hit as two people cannot work on the same file but it is "fine" for average user.

I follow the "meta onlyoffice comparison for writer/calc" and every 6 months or so it there is some improvement.

This is such an important tool to the level of curl but it doesn't have a marketing budget and it's not looking out for investors so "normies" don't know it exists or why it exists but it works.

The old memes of opening a word file and finding garbage is becoming less and less true. Cross compatibility with a moving target that is ms office is a Sisyphean task

I love LO and I appreciate the love they are giving to Arabic speakers, but that "متال" is killing me!

I've always tried to like Libreoffice but I'm leaning more towards Only Office these days. Libreoffice just feels stuck in the past and their recent feuds with other office suites is drama I just don't want anything to do with.