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I've never had LibreOffice crash my computer. Sure, it crashes occasionally, but it never takes anything else with it.
If you're putting enough stuff into a spreadsheet to crash it, it's time to move to a real database.
Nah, I work with real big data all the time—I’m a ML engineer/DataSci depending on the day.
It’s not crashing because I put a trivial couple hundred rows of data into a spreadsheet.
It crashes because there’s some conflict between its Java core and the Linux kernel I’m running it on. It’s been like this across many versions; I keep everything updated, etc. Tried many versions of Java, and OpenJDK because FuckOracle. I’m no Java developer though, so Inwouldnt be able to contribute unless they want to refactor the entire core to Rust in which case I’d love to help.
I send bug reports and it’s always just crickets—either they don’t know and don’t communicate that they don’t know, or don’t care, or more likely are just too busy with their realjobs to go on the hunt for a solution to a corner-case bug/crash scenario like mine probably is.
I use office programs so infrequently that I just deal with it. But if I was like my directors and managers who live and die by office productivity apps then I’d have to abandon LibreOffice and go to the closed-source solution.
Agreed with “fuck Oracle,” but isn’t the JVM the same regardless of where you compile it, Linux or something else?
Something seems off with the idea of a conflict between Linux and Java (and I am no fan of Java!)
It’s supposed to be the same everywhere, yes, that’s the whole point. I’m just listing some of the things I’ve tried to find stability with the program on my machine. Maybe it’s not LO vs Linux kernel, but LO seems to work ok on an old MacBook I use sometimes. I don’t use Windows so I don’t have a user experience there to compare against.