I use it all the time when i need a spreadsheet, rich text editor or... powerpoint viewer :-P.

Now i don't really need these that often but it is still one of the programs i have installed on my PC since the OpenOffice days.

Also FWIW i avoid anything web-based as much as i can. I prefer software that runs on my own PC, as a desktop app whenever possible.

I use it all the time, not because I'm as good as I'd like to be about keeping things out of the cloud that don't need to be there, but because I often have ad hoc spreadsheets that are bigger than Google Sheets can handle.

Yes because I dont like clouds. But I truly dislike any second I have LibreOffice open. It feels slow, clunky, ugly, non-native on Linux and it is generally not a fun, stable nor feature full enough piece of software for a very light user like myself.

I mean, I chose to learn LaTeX rather than having to put up with LO for a simple rich text document.

The sad thing is that the other non-Office alternatives are even worse in their own way. Word processors are like browsers, huge, complex, requiring a ton of compatibility subsystems, yet without the massive corporate backing actual browsers have. So there's only Microsoft, and a lot of small players that would have to spend literal billions to reach 50% of the power and polish of Office. Word processors are basically living fossils, relics of a bygone era.

It's sad, really, because people still need to write documents and spreadsheet, but no sane company will seriously try to enter this space ever again.

I install it on my mom's laptop, and, after configuring it to save to Microsoft formats by default, it works great for everything she uses it for (personal documents, various things for church and other groups). for her purposes, it's worth it to not have to pay the now-annual Office costs.

I use it all the times on machines that don't have the MS Office license. It has been great since it works across different platforms.

Occasional spreadsheet user. Was using a well-known proprietary software until now but LibreOffice's interface is much easier to use for me. I don't have to keep looking again for the place each option is. Especially, in Writer, all text formatting options are in a single place so I never have to spend much time looking to find a given feature.

Bonus point: pressing Ctrl-S actually opens the file save dialog.

I still use it for some things here and there, but most of the time when I want to write a document or spreadsheet, I either a) want to share it with other people, or b) keep it private, but be able to access it from more than one device. So, Google Docs it is, unfortunately.

Daily. I hate clouds with a passion.

My mother uses it. She finds the interface more familiar than modern MS Office.

Of course you'll find countless HN users who use it or have set their family up with it, but in general, no, I don't think many people want locally managed files anymore. The whole point of documents is to share them, and cloud offerings do that better.

The whole landscape has shifted from underneath LO and I'm not sure they have the capacity to adapt. Especially since they still haven't made a decision about what the toolbar UI should be, something that should have been settled a decade ago.

I never used office software much, but I do use it to view the occasional csv. I avoid cloud offerings like the plague, since I don't like getting rug-pulled.

Daily. It has its faults but its WAY more usable than the MS trash. And it lives on my computer - no "cloud" garbage if I can avoid it.

yes, absolutely, not everyone wants or needs a "runs as a web app in a browser" word/excel or google sheets/docs etc.

I use some combination of Impress, Calc, and Writer everyday. Wouldn't trade them for any cloud or MS Office product.

The killer feature for me is full regex search and replace support, not available elsewhere.

Exporting to .xls files it's pretty bad, so it's a no for sharing. Unfortunately, Google sheets does a better job here. I assume cloud office is the best in this case but haven't tried it.

I switched from gsuite to LO a while back for the vast majority of my personal documents. TBH I miss some of Sheets, but on balance I prefer having less of my data in cloud providers' hands.

Let me introduce you to LibreOffice Online (https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-online/) and its descendent, Collabora Online (https://www.collaboraoffice.com/collabora-online/)

I use it frequently for editing csv files. It's also a great default to have on Windows computers that need to open the occasional Word document. It fixes some of excel's mistakes, too, especially the one where opening a csv in Excel now doesn't bring up the text import wizard.

I also love the plug-ins that people can write in Python or whatever suits them.

The database is for the birds, and I haven't gotten any use out of the other parts.

To chime in, I use both cloud. There's still many cases where uploading a document or having to deal with the online version is not great.

I tried LibreOffice for the first time in many years recently to help me generate some nice templates for ODT documents I wanted to export using Emacs' Org-Mode. Overall I was really quite impressed with how far it has come.

I also found that ODT documents also import nicely from Google Drive into Google Docs, which is a great way to get feedback on documents I author in Org-Mode with my teammates.

Primary office program since a decade or so. I don't own MS Office and for many purpose it is quite convenient to have/be able to use files on disk (admin forms, attachments and downloads, etc). I use cloud tools when needed but I am very happy with LibreOffice otherwise.

I mostly use it to view files so that I don't have to re-upload them to Google Drive just to open them in Google Docs or Sheets. If LibreOffice could work directly from NextCloud, I might be inclined to intentionally use it more often.

I use both. I use local for stuff I consider important (estate documents, financial documents, etc) and the "cloud" when I don't care about the risk of storing information on someone else's computer.

What do you personally use?