On my Linux boxes, I was able to get them from the stock package repositories or because I'm in Ubuntu, I could just grab the very latest copy from the Snap Store. On my Mac, I went to the website and got the latest version from there. Onboarding for LibreOffice is relatively straightforward regardless of whatever your platform is. LibreOffice is active in a number of different charities that I support, and so I wanted to be able to support that myself if I could. Other than that, I'm a big fan of the open source community and LibreOffice is genuinely trying to help the community at large get great software all over the world that people can use. That alone is a big advantage over Microsoft Office where either you are paying indefinitely or you're paying very large upfront costs every couple of years. Number one reason I chose LibreOffice is because it's free as in beer, so you don't pay anything to download or use the software.
It's less of an issue of getting copy at work because you can always get that, as having a copy personally, and I personally do not want to pay Microsoft indefinitely or pay a very large sum of money for something I need to upgrade every so often, so it was mainly a cost issue for me. Everybody has Office, right? It was great except I didn't really care for the price tag. For more reviews like these, please click the link below.īefore LibreOffice, like a lot of people, I had Microsoft Office. Justin: Hi, I'm Justin, DevOps engineer, and I give LibreOffice a big five out of five stars.