Beauvais: La suite bureautique LibreOffice, Le samedi 5 avril 2025 de 09h30 à 12h00. https://www.agendadulibre.org/events/31965 #oisux #logicielsLibres #atelier #libreoffice #calc #writer #draw #libreEnFete2025

Ask me how many times a day I get burned by the #LibreOffice race-ish condition where I hit C-f and then start typing but the C-f handler doesn't leap into action until after the other keystrokes have been processed as normal input, so I end up accidentally replacing the contents of a spreadsheet cell that I also can't easily find because where was focus...and then the cursor jumps to the search box.

I liked this youtube video from JCristina explaining why last year he switched to LibreOffice and Linux away from MS Office and Microsoft. I feel the same way as he does about Microsoft and most big proprietary software companies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtgJi5DVxmo

Even though things with Windows weren't as bad when I switched fully to Linux back around 2007 when it was still Win XP, Windows has just kept getting worse with all the spying, subscriptions, ads, AI, etc. while Linux has kept getting better and easier, with none of that invasive stuff.

The only thing I'd add to what he says, regarding the part where he mentions how you have to pay $10 a *month* to use MS Office (plus subs to other $ software): If you use FOSS, imagine how much money you've saved over the years! So if you can, why not donate some of that savings to the FOSS software projects you like or use the most to help keep them going.

#saperlipopette #libreoffice

$ libreoffice
Warning: failed to launch javaldx - java may not function correctly
ERROR 4 forking process

One wonders if EMAS* ever audited their own use of Microsoft software and consequentially Microsoft's significant deleterious impact on society by monopoly, planned obsolescence, massive tax evasion, et cetera.

Moral of the story: use Linux, LibreOffice, etc.

* Eco-Management and Audit Scheme; "Evaluate, report, and improve the environmental performance of your organisation"

LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3840480/libreoffice-downloads-on-the-rise-as-users-look-to-avoid-subscription-costs.html

God, LibreOffice's spellchecker is so bad… it absolutely doesn't do compound words. "Pro-[word that's in the dictionary]" gets flagged as a spelling error, even though LO knows both halves of the word… and some of the suggestions are just absurd. I typed "ATLA" and LO suggested I correct it to "ATATATATATALA" or something.

Hello #libreoffice #extension 0.0

https://extensions.libreoffice.org/en

Primera mirada a LibreOffice 25.8 alfa 0 | El Pingüino Tolkiano

https://elpinguinotolkiano.wordpress.com/2025/04/02/primera-mirada-a-libreoffice-25-8-alfa-0/

#software, #LibreOffice, #Writer

LibreOffice Documentation 2/4/2025

https://personaljournal.ca/libreoffice/libreoffice-documentation-2-4-2025

4 raisons pour lesquelles les téléchargements de #LibreOffice sont en forte hausse https://www.zdnet.fr/actualites/4-raisons-pour-lesquelles-les-telechargements-de-libreoffice-sont-en-forte-hausse-411076.htm Note perso: mais qui utilise encore Microsoft Word? Payer les Gafam quand on peut éviter, c'est déjà nul, mais maintenant qu'ils se prosternent tous devant les techno-fafs, vraiment...

Not world domination yet but still an interesting trend.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3840480/libreoffice-downloads-on-the-rise-as-users-look-to-avoid-subscription-costs.html

Privas: Atelier numérique : découverte de LibreOffice Writer, Le jeudi 3 avril 2025 de 13h30 à 15h30. https://www.agendadulibre.org/events/32153 #libreEnFete2025 #atelier #writer #libreoffice #logicielsLibres

Just ran into a brutal #UI / #UX problem in LibreOffice Calc, on a Debian bookworm system, fully up to date.

1. Decide to print spreadsheet
2. Open print dialog
3. Preview is in the left pane, options in the right.
4. Scroll down in the options pane to find an option near the bottom.
5. Change setting, or not.
6. Scroll back up to the top of the options pane, using the pointing device vertical scroll wheel.
7. If the "number of copies" scrollbox happens to pass under the mouse pointer, it will rapidly increase the number of copies. It's not particularly obvious this is happening; it's easy to miss the value is changing.
8. Move the mouse pointer slightly up and scrolling the options pane continues.
9. Click "print".

Voila! 23 copies of what you wanted to print a single copy of.

I actually ran into this while trying to debug a totally different UI / UX bug

Im März hat sich im #LibreOffice-Projekt viel getan - Aktualisierungen der Software, der Tag der Dokumentenfreiheit, eine neue Podcast-Episode, Neuigkeiten über die Migration von 30.000 PCs auf LibreOffice in einem deutschen Bundesland und vieles mehr:
https://de.blog.documentfoundation.org/2025/04/01/libreoffice-projekt-und-community-rueckblick-maerz-2025/
#foss #opensource #freesoftware