unstable libreoffice

[Martin Skjöldebrand]

On Monday 22 July 2013 13.51.04 lee wrote:
> Martin Skjöldebrand <shieldfire at gmail.com> writes:
> >  Is anyone else seeing a horribly unstable Libreoffice in Fedora 19?
> 
> I decided against using it quite some time ago because even simple
> things like mailmerge didn't work, and trying to program something would
> have required unreasonable learning efforts and appeared not to be
> feasible anyway because one bug after the other would have needed a
> workaround.  It would have taken me nowhere.
> 
> LaTeX works great for what I'm doing, and I didn't bother to install LO
> on Fedora.  Give it ten years or so, and LO might be usable.

Works great is completely dependent on what you want to do. For daily writing 
of office documents it requires an - for me - undefendable amount of fiddling 
getting it setup properly, so no - LaTex is not an alternative.

However, I've seen other having reported crashes on dialog boxes, so it's a 
bit weird no one here has had the same experience ... I might just be unlucky 
I guess .... =(

Otherwise LO works nicely, although I miss the ribbon interface from MS Office 
(I know, lots of people don't).

/Martin S