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The biggest blocker to LibreOffice adoption? LibreOffice


Article discussing the problems with LibreOffice growth and adoption among businesses and individual users, focusing on Microsoft Office OOXML file format compatibility, pragmatic necessities of everyday usage, technical issues in the office suite, and more

To make things worse, even institutions like governments, banks, municipalities and alike will, in many cases, use Office documents, created in Word, Excel or Powerpoint as the standard medium of communication. This is the kind of issues that can turn professional work into a joke, ruin someone's business, and, and the end of the day, prevent people from using LibreOffice. For years now, I've been waiting for LibreOffice to spread its wings and shine, and like many other prominent open-source projects, and most Linux distros, it seems stuck in that underdog mentality, the super-nice amateur not-so-nice professional cross-section.

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