LibreOffice 26.8 Released with Many Nice Improvements

I mostly use Calc and I’ve held back donating because honestly it is not that good (irrational, I know). Specially if you’re an excel power-ish user.

But lately it has been satisfying all my personal spreadsheet needs. Even though it has major pain points. I’ve tried every other spreadsheet app in Linux and honestly they all suck.

I guess our best bet is to rally behind this project and hope it gets as good as Linux so that it really competes with office.

Kudos to the team and really excited to try the pivot tables calculated formulas. Pivot table feature parity is what I am missing the most!

I use it as my day tool as a lawyer, I use writer and calc alongside office tools and i see formatting issues coming less and less. This is after me using it day for 3-4 years daily.

Every update makes improvements.

Sure its "slow" at features but I'm not interested in "ai" features so it's fine.

It inherits all problems of desktop office, collaboration is hit as two people cannot work on the same file but it is "fine" for average user.

I follow the "meta onlyoffice comparison for writer/calc" and every 6 months or so it there is some improvement.

This is such an important tool to the level of curl but it doesn't have a marketing budget and it's not looking out for investors so "normies" don't know it exists or why it exists but it works.

The old memes of opening a word file and finding garbage is becoming less and less true. Cross compatibility with a moving target that is ms office is a Sisyphean task

Years ago they felt unpolished and a bit pet-project-y, but now they feel like proper tools that stand up well.

I think for the business scene Excel will remain dominant for shear backwards compatibility, but for typical users there's no reason not to use it.