LibreOffice takes aim at Microsoft Office with free guides to help users switch

A solid product, a no-brainer. Non-administrator install capability would be nice for Windows users.

REGEX that's incompatible with Office doesn't win users.

> powerful spreadsheet functions like TEXTSPLIT and VSTACK...

...won't matter to almost anyone when you still can't right-click a row and press 'd' on a keyboard to delete that row. Everyday stuff like that matters, not an oblique function.

I still cannot find my way around the semi-ribbon interface, while half the options are still in menus. It seems like pot luck whether or.not the right-clicked 'format' will have the option. Perhaps it's not even 'format'.

Fancy functions to learn don't matter when ChatGPT can string together existing functions to do the job and leave an average-lay-power-user happy. 365. Meanwhile, python's python-XXXx libraries provide a superior UI, a UI that's entirely in my head, than LibreOffice.

If Apple is all-in on services, why not adopt LibreOffice and make it a real competitor to 365?

Well, they abandoned ClarisWorks/AppleWorks back in the day, they must have thought it not worth the effort.

They have their own office suite already?