LibreOffice 7.6 Alpha 1 Available For This Leading Open-Source Office Suite

[phoronix]

Phoronix: LibreOffice 7.6 Alpha 1 Available For This Leading Open-Source Office Suite

The LibreOffice 7.6 Alpha build is now available for testing this next major feature release for this open-source, cross-platform free software office suite...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/LibreOffice-7.6-Alpha

[uid313]

I hope that LibreOffice 7.6 is a major improvement over earlier versions because last I tried LibreOffice was 7.5 and it was a huge disappointment.
I also hope to see GTK 4 and Qt 6 support.

[Vistaus]

I hope that LibreOffice 7.6 is a major improvement over earlier versions because last I tried LibreOffice was 7.5 and it was a huge disappointment.
I also hope to see GTK 4 and Qt 6 support.

Also tried 7.5 again recently after a few years of not trying LO and it's still a mess. I mean: I couldn't even get it to work properly as every setting I changed made my entire PC hang when I clicked on Apply. After a few hangs with forced reboots and reverted settings (LO didn't even apply them) I gave up.

[Veto]

Also tried 7.5 again recently after a few years of not trying LO and it's still a mess. I mean: I couldn't even get it to work properly as every setting I changed made my entire PC hang when I clicked on Apply. After a few hangs with forced reboots and reverted settings (LO didn't even apply them) I gave up.

"I failed, but it was not my fault" 😏
Thank you, but we are no wiser...

[NotMine999]

"I failed, but it was not my fault" 😏
Thank you, but we are no wiser...

I agree. So much "sturm und drang" combined with a lack of any details to help us understand the troublesome environment.

As for myself, I have used LO Writer on both Windows and Linux for years now (ASUS motherboards, AMD & Intel CPUs, and HP laptops) and never encountered issues in LO Writer. Most of my LO Writer documents are exported to PDF without error and without issues noted by users of those documents. Tables work fine for me. Text formatting, including various fonts & font sizes & effects, also work fine. Page numbering can still be a hassle, but so it is in MS Word. Currently I am on LO 7.5.? for both my Linux and Windows computers.

[ripper81]

I also used LibreOffice since the first release. Before that i used OpenOffice. I never encountered stabilityissues. Compatibility with MS Office is not perfect but has been improved over the years. It might not be the right solution for everyone but for the vast majority it should be suitable. It is free to use, doesn't require cloudaccounts and developed as an opensource application which makes it the perfect officesuit for linux at least as a defaultapplication.

[Vistaus]

"I failed, but it was not my fault" 😏
Thank you, but we are no wiser...

Distro: openSUSE Tumbleweed
DE: KDE Plasma 5.27
PC: Minisforum EliteMini HX90
RAM: 32 GB of which I use pretty much 16 GB max.
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX
App that caused my issue: LO Writer 7.5
Other apps that I had opened to rule out other faulty app behavior: none
Install method: straight from the openSUSE Tumbleweed repo

Is that better?

[Veto]

Distro: openSUSE Tumbleweed
DE: KDE Plasma 5.27
PC: Minisforum EliteMini HX90
RAM: 32 GB of which I use pretty much 16 GB max.
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX
App that caused my issue: LO Writer 7.5
Other apps that I had opened to rule out other faulty app behavior: none
Install method: straight from the openSUSE Tumbleweed repo

Is that better?

Frankly, I don't care much. I don't use openSUSE and LibreOffice works great for me on Ubuntu, Windows and whatnot. Of course it has its own peculiarities, like all other office programs.

Have you filed a bug report towards openSUSE? It is likely more fruitful to bark up that tree... This is not really a support or bugfix forum.

Edit: Nice compact and powerful rig, by the way 👍

[Vistaus]

Frankly, I don't care much. I don't use openSUSE and LibreOffice works great for me on Ubuntu, Windows and whatnot. Of course it has its own peculiarities, like all other office programs.

Have you filed a bug report towards openSUSE? It is likely more fruitful to bark up that tree... This is not really a support or bugfix forum.

So I'm presenting an experience based on an issue, you want more information and once I gave you more information, you're like “I don't care about your information, this isn't a support forum.”

???

[Veto]

So I'm presenting an experience based on an issue, you want more information and once I gave you more information, you're like “I don't care about your information, this isn't a support forum.”

???

Please read my post again. I did not request more information.