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Kingsoft recently announced that WPS Office has 620M MAU users, the bulk of which is in China. Microsoft has even more Office users in China

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/chinas-microsoft-office-rival...

So if China has heard of LibreOffice, they clearly didn't like what they've heard...

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It's the product of a government owned company... in China. What do you expect?

Moreover, what you write is monitored, and you may loose documents based on what you write [1].

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-frozen-document-in-china-unle...

> Moreover, what you write is monitored

So just like MS Word then

So, because competitors have traction nobody has heard of libre office? That's not a logical statement.

You can't prove a negative. Usage numbers tell the real story. Either people haven't heard of it, or, worse for proponents, they have heard of it and have decided it's not good enough.

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