LibreOffice Enables Multi-Threaded 3D Rendering

[mirmirmir]

I've already said it, I didn't feel the need repeat it, but after I read comments here, I have to say it again.

I've seen multiple people on Twitter complaining about LO's spelling. And the LO's official Twitter answered them by blaming your OS instead. It is LIBREOFFICE that's problem, god damit.

Like please, I want to love this software, I tried to use it for serious and heavy task. And I got to say, it's not as stable as I need it to be. I found 2 consistent bugs, one triggers crash, another one triggers freeze.

The reason I complained it here? LO's fans just can't take genuine criticism. We already have a not good enough software, don't push more people away by being toxic community, who blame the users for LO's own fault.

I have to say it: LO's contributors love to add more shiny new things, but they don't bother to get the basics right.

And yes, I did file bug report. Tho I doubt they fixed it.

[chocolate]

LibreOffice handles old MS Office files and OpenDocument files better than anything else; unfortunately, as much as I'd love to handle OpenDocument files in my professional life, I have come to terms with the harsh reality that practically nobody uses those formats.

Luckily, as far as FOSS goes, there's OnlyOffice for handling new MS Office files ("Office Open XML") in such a transparent manner that nobody will notice, even if you're working on stupidly complex templates for standard engineering documentation (e.g. a client's useless, over-designed ECSS template). Comments, document history, write protection, everything works.

Then there is the matter that none of these solutions are really suited for that type of technical document. But then again, what is? Everything feels too complicated, and if it tries to be otherwise, it ends up being cumbersome for other reasons.

[skeevy420]

LibreOffice handles old MS Office files and OpenDocument files better than anything else; unfortunately, as much as I'd love to handle OpenDocument files in my professional life, I have come to terms with the harsh reality that practically nobody uses those formats.

Luckily, as far as FOSS goes, there's OnlyOffice for handling new MS Office files ("Office Open XML") in such a transparent manner that nobody will notice, even if you're working on stupidly complex templates for standard engineering documentation (e.g. a client's useless, over-designed ECSS template). Comments, document history, write protection, everything works.

Then there is the matter that none of these solutions are really suited for that type of technical document. But then again, what is? Everything feels too complicated, and if it tries to be otherwise, it ends up being cumbersome for other reasons.

I'm fortunate that everything I do in LO is exported as a PDF before being emailed. I'd hate having to play nice and collaborate with others with compatible formats.

So I was checking out OnlyOffice and noticed something that I think is damn funny -- One of its paying customers is Oracle. If you know the history of LibreOffice, Oracle should be the one selling an office suite.

"Let's buy a company with an industry leading office suite and world class file system. OH SHIT A SQUIRREL!!! So what were we doing? That's right, so this Linux thing seems popular. We need to do an Oracle Linux that'll be yet another RHEL clone with BTRFS and 47 extra kernel patches."

[oiaohm]

Then there is the matter that none of these solutions are really suited for that type of technical document. But then again, what is? Everything feels too complicated, and if it tries to be otherwise, it ends up being cumbersome for other reasons.

Technical Documents come in many forms.

https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/hi/text/swriter/guide/globaldoc_howtos.html

Master documents is a feature that was never stable to use under MS Office and current MS Office does not have the feature. Master documents under LibreOffice is highly stable. So for particular types of technical documents the master documents Libreoffice is a really good fit. So not as complex as going to a Latex based solution.

Latex also has functional multi file documents but your choice of editor is important and Latex has a hell of a learning curve.

Then you have technical documents what the Linux kernel uses you know the files end in rst.

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst

Yes this is restructuredtext

https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/restructuredtext/index.html

These are specialist custom formats that that your general office suites are not going to handle correctly.

You also see some parties fighting too and nail with MS Office to make it do technical documents leading to odd issues in the final documents that would have been avoided going Libreoffice/ODF or Latex or specialist/custom formats.

chocolate LibreOffice is used by some parties for particular manuals/technical documents due to master document feature and what you see is what you get requiring a lower learning curve than Latex or specialist/custom. Yes some governments around the world their internal procedure documents are done in LibreOffice. If you have never used libreoffice master document mode I would recommend trying it out.

[chocolate]

chocolate LibreOffice is used by some parties for particular manuals/technical documents due to master document feature and what you see is what you get requiring a lower learning curve than Latex or specialist/custom. Yes some governments around the world their internal procedure documents are done in LibreOffice. If you have never used libreoffice master document mode I would recommend trying it out.

Thank you kindly, loved your comment. I hope I will get the chance to do that in a professional context some day. Cheers!