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My first association with -libre in product names is LibreOffice. And that has managed to look old and ugly for as long as I can remember, with little to no improvement


It was ugly when it was called StarOffice, and also ugly when it was called OpenOffice. So calling it LibreOffice should have been obvious from the start!


LibreOffice did have some nice improvements over OpenOffice.

Really, office suites are kind of a late-90’s concept anyway, so having UI that looks weird by modern standards is appropriate probably.


odd that you say this, libreoffice is the first of those high quality products i had in mind. it looks clean, friendly, and everything just works. whenever i am forced to use msoffice it's a cringeworthy experience.

is this opinion based on recent experiences of the libreoffice suite?




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