Hi :) Looks like someone just having a "bad hair day" (or week or something).
Inevitably LibreOffice does have imperfections, just as all other software, and everything else does too. In some cases they can be over-come quite easily by switching from the default "Fresh" to the more mature "Still" branch - or vice-versa. In Linux-land we often have choices such as using the tweaked versions in our distro's repos (through a package manager) or download from the official LibreOffice website and install, or even get the source-code and "make" or "build" if you are a purist and using Gentoo or Arch or Slackware or something. So for most of us point&click users we have 2 or 3 easy options. I suspect that the major problem is that the default version of LibreOffice is always the latest "Fresh", unlike other OpenSource projects that give the most solidly matured branch to noobs and then leave it to geeks to find their way around to getting the "more advanced" one. Anyway, i too have been very happily using LibreOffice for over 5 years and everyone i meet who has used it (apart from one) has also been very happy with it - or become happy once i help them switch to the "Still" branch. Regards from Tom :) On 19 November 2015 at 15:39, Cley Faye <cleyf...@gmail.com> wrote: > I usually don't reply to these kind of posts (I keep my rare contributions > in trying to help others...) but there's something to say here. > > You forgot to say exactly what's wrong. You didn't even allude to it. Your > whole message can be summed up by "Useless". From the tone of it I guess > that you don't want at all to be constructive, but maybe I'm mistaken; in > that case please tell us what issues, precisely or in general, you have, > and most likely people here (maybe me too) will try to help you out. > For the record, right now, I'm using LibreOffice on my office computer > running Debian without issues, and I'm fairly certain that a lot of people > out there are too, so your "make the software practically useless" > statement is rude, and borderline offensive to the people that work both > with and on LibreOffice. > > The purpose of this list is to provide help to users, and it's working as > fine as LibreOffice itself. It is not here so you can vent out and just > drop random, non-constructive nonsense. > > Sorry for the noise, > > -- > Cley Faye > http://cleyfaye.net > > 2015-11-19 15:21 GMT+01:00 O'Shea Keiron <keiron.os...@gmail.com>: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> I am by no means a negative person, so can I just congratulate you all >> on your recent achievements in making LibreOffice completely and >> utterly unusable on the Linux platform!! >> >> It is said by many in the FOSS community that the 'one' thing (of >> many) holding Linux back as an actual usable OS is that it lacks a >> comprehensive office suite. >> >> LO and OO promised to solve this issue. A unified office suite, with >> the ease of use and format compatibility of MS Office. >> >> Instead, we're seeing the software package regress. >> >> It's all well and good chuffing yourselves up about code clean ups, >> but if these clean ups make the software practically useless for the >> end user - then you might as well throw the towel in. >> >> Working software first. >> >> Regards, >> >> -- >> Keiron O'Shea 毛毛 >> >> Aberystwyth University >> PhD Student, IBERS >> k...@aber.ac.uk || keironteilo.os...@kaust.edu.sa || >> http://users.aber.ac.uk/keo7 >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org >> Problems? >> http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >> Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >> List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >> All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be >> deleted >> > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
