this post was submitted on 09 May 2025
330 points (98.8% liked)

Linux

54035 readers
1385 users here now

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

Rules

Related Communities

Community icon by Alpár-Etele Méder, licensed under CC BY 3.0

founded 6 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Today I did my first advanced spreadsheet on LibreOffice after switching to Linux, and it handled itself pretty well. I had to search for some features on the web at first, but after I got it down, I felt comfortable using it. Also, LibreOffice's default menu layout is not pretty, but I can find all of the functions with just a click, unlike MS Office's ribbon menu where I had to click around to find what I was looking for. Sorry for bad English.

top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 47 minutes ago)

Yeah, but it'd be better if calc gridlines didn't have that unchangeable fade effect

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I bring this up often because its so amusing to me.

Last year I did a lot of interviews with developers of popular Steam Deck and Linux programs. All went really well, and were quite fun to do.

One 'dev' (I use that term so loosely because I found out GPT is heavily used for their work) freaked out though when they saw my document I sent initially was an .odt file.

Knowing I am a pen-tester, they freaked out and told the public at large I was trying to hack them with a weird file type.

.odt

It still makes me laugh. Anyway, I swear by LibreOffice, I use it daily and love it so much!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

if a specific format isn't requested or required, and the formatted text document is not expected to be edited by the recipient--only read, possibly by computer, or printed, i would default to using a pdf.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Most of these were not on-the-spot interviews. They were very informal questions and answers.

So Writer felt appropriate to me - the questions were there, they can copy to paste elsewhere, or enter their own answers in the document.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I do wish it had a self hosted docker though. I could see Proton mail and thunder mail adopting it that way, which would be neat.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Is a self hosted docker different from this?

https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-libreoffice

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

Yeah; it's pretty great. It lacks the excel functions, but if you know some python that is a total non-issue.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago

You can visually theme it so it looks differently

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Yes. Its the obvious choice for desktop.

But if you want web, have you tried CryptoPad.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

Collabora used to offer Libre Office online, now it’s their Libre Office fork

Rollapp lets you use LibreOffice online but I don’t think there is collaboration

[–] [email protected] 9 points 15 hours ago

Indeed, LibreOffice Calc is a near-daily fixture in my operational workflow. The insistence on proprietary, data-harvesting alternatives like Google Docs is… unnecessary. For Debian-based systems, the installation process is straightforward: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa & sudo apt install libreoffice, referencing the official documentation at https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Install/Linux

[–] [email protected] 27 points 20 hours ago

offtopic but your english is great :)

load more comments
view more: next ›