LibreOffice 24.8.4, optimised for the privacy-conscious user, is available for download - The Document Foundation Blog
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Berlin, 19 December 2024 – LibreOffice 24.8.4, the fourth minor release of the LibreOffice 24.8 family of the free open source, volunteer-supported office suite for Windows (Intel, AMD and ARM), MacOS (Apple and Intel) and Linux, is available at www.libreoffice.org/download. The release includes over 55 bug and regression fixes over LibreOffice 24.8.3 [1] to improve […]
  • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
    76·
    5 hours ago

    Honest question. In the era of collaborative document editing on browser-based platforms, who is using this software and what are they using it for? I work with documents for my job and it’s been literally decades since I used a local standalone word processor.

    • Shihali@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      1 hour ago

      I need local font support far, far more often than I need collaborative editing. Plus, call me old, but I don’t like storing everything on a server in Virginia for Google to read.

    • Zink@programming.dev
      1·
      51 minutes ago

      I almost never use it, but if LibreOffice can come in handy a few times a year, why not at least keep it installed?

      A lot of stuff is indeed browser based, so I probably spend more time in Firefox than in my code editor and terminal.

      But LibreOffice is welcome to live on 0.1% of my disk space!

    • wasabi@lemmy.eco.br
      10·
      4 hours ago

      I’d say it depends on what you do and how much collaboration with other people is involved. I have always used standalone clients, and I’m not a fan anything web browser based (or cloud in general). I started using LibreCalc instead of Excel for my job a few months ago. Now that I got used to it, I love it. It loads faster, has regex out of the box. Excel has already become quite enshittified, in my opinion.

      • CarrotsHaveEars@lemmy.ml
        4·
        4 hours ago

        What you both said are true. It’s convenient to load a site and perform tasks to a degree what native clients can, and it’s also weird how since more than a decade ago we can’t agree on anything and now we are trying to do everything in a web client.

    • SayCyberOnceMore@feddit.ukEnglish
      7·
      4 hours ago

      Yeah, mirroring the other comment here -it’s standalone app everytime for me. I’m a bit of a power user, so maybe it’s the extra functionality that just can’t be handled in a browser which already has 20 other tabs open, but live colab is … well, just not used that often.

      Sure, we’ll be tweaking cells in a spreadsheet now & again, but my technical documents are done by one person, then reviewed (comments, track changes, etc) by others for the audit trail.

      And I’m just not going to purchase a Microsoft product again.

      But I will contribute to Open Source… ODF has done great things.

    • shortdorkyasian@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      11 hours ago

      Not immediately up-to-date at all times, but I use backports. Looks like they’re only a point release behind still. https://packages.debian.org/bookworm-backports/libreoffice

      The only time it gets behind by a full version is if Debian Stable is really long in the tooth and Backports can’t compile something due to a compiler or library being really old or if Backports hasn’t been created yet because Stable is young.