Joël de Bruijn

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  • Maybe the “you never get a second chance for a first impression” is indeed unfair but it is hurdle for adoption.

    In my case my motivation to keep using and trying LibreOffice is driven by the hate for MS and not by the love for LO.

    For example: I went through some eye surgeries and really needed a dark mode. But I couldnt get a dark mode in which buttons still were cleary visible. Icons not showing well and hard to tell what they were for. Meaning I kept hoping the tooltips showed something usefull. But “reading” icons is a bit strange … I am sure if I search forums, git issues and documentation something usefull will turn up.

    And maybe its infantile like you said but I sure like contextual filled menubars since PaintshopPro in 2005. So whats with the empty menus showing a handfull buttons and everything else in some cornermenu? Seems like a waste of screen real estate.

    As for dataloss: sure my data wasnt lost but loading and pivoting a 90k row data table made Calc freeze and only restarted after killing it. 90k is not for everyone but it sure isnt a lot either in spreadsheet land.






  • All the main components are already self hostable. But you wouldnt call it Ionos. If the serfdom region doesnt matter to you I get your reaction.

    But if businesses want to leave MS and looking for hosters of mail, Nextcloud and Collabora I would think that more European providers for hosting this as a suite are very much welcome.

    Especially SME cant afford the expertise to have this tech stack managed by themselves.

    So for me sticking with LibreOffice only compares to clients, not the hosting of files etc.