Stats time! 📊 Our "State of the #LibreOffice Project" for 2025 counts downloads, Git commits, Bugzilla submissions, translations Ask LibreOffice activity, and donations: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/01/21/state-of-the-project-2025/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware

Our next major release is just around the corner! #LibreOffice 26.2 will be released in February, with many new features and improvements, thanks to our worldwide community. Help to test it, before the final release: https://qa.blog.documentfoundation.org/2026/01/20/libreoffice-26-2-rc2-is-available-for-testing/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware

Our next major release is just around the corner! #LibreOffice 26.2 will be released in February, with many new features and improvements, thanks to our worldwide community. Help to test it, before the final release: https://qa.blog.documentfoundation.org/2026/01/20/libreoffice-26-2-rc2-is-available-for-testing/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@seven_708/115918033421946886

Fair shout from @steg I forgot to say what I replace all this with:

I forgot to mention as well that I replaced Edge browser (at work) with #vivaldi browser. Never looked back 🙃

- Amazon: this one is complicated, but I simply made a step back and realized that I am not supporting local businesses. I will now try to purchase local first, and if that is not possible, I will be looking for the stuff I want on the net via #ecosia (search engine, which I forgot to mention that I replaced google with), so that I purchase directly from small business (if possible)
- this one is simple, I revered curse and started purchasing blue rays again (movies), mp3 for music (no subscription)
- digital cloud and AWS where problematic, you get addicted to the ease of clouds: replacement’s: I de-centralized 1. #infomaniak_com (domain registrations) 2. #MythicalBeasts (cloud servers) from the UK 3. #BunnyVPN (this one is still in progress, but this will fully replace CloudFlare CDN)
- social media has been completely replaces with #mastodon
- MS Office on my private machines has been replaced with two packages: 1. #protonmail (email, calendar, and cloud drive) 2. #libreoffice for documents

This was not easy, but baby steps and we can get there!

Hope this helps whom ever wants to join the move #boycottusa

Update time! #LibreOffice 25.8.4 is now available, with 70 fixes and improvements to compatibility: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/12/18/libreoffice-25-8-4/ #foss #openSource

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@seven_708/115918033421946886

Fair shout from @steg I forgot to say what I replace all this with:

I forgot to mention as well that I replaced Edge browser (at work) with #vivaldi browser. Never looked back 🙃

- Amazon: this one is complicated, but I simply made a step back and realized that I am not supporting local businesses. I will now try to purchase local first, and if that is not possible, I will be looking for the stuff I want on the net via #ecosia (search engine, which I forgot to mention that I replaced google with), so that I purchase directly from small business (if possible)
- this one is simple, I revered curse and started purchasing blue rays again (movies), mp3 for music (no subscription)
- digital cloud and AWS where problematic, you get addicted to the ease of clouds: replacement’s: I de-centralized 1. #infomaniak_com (domain registrations) 2. #MythicalBeasts (cloud servers) from the UK 3. #BunnyVPN (this one is still in progress, but this will fully replace CloudFlare CDN)
- social media has been completely replaces with #mastodon
- MS Office on my private machines has been replaced with two packages: 1. #protonmail (email, calendar, and cloud drive) 2. #libreoffice for documents

This was not easy, but baby steps and we can get there!

Hope this helps whom ever wants to join the move #boycottusa

Open standards – like the Open Document Format used by #LibreOffice – are extremely beneficial to end users. They reduce vendor lock-in, improve compatibility between apps, and preserve your data for longer: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/01/16/why-open-standards-are-beneficial-to-end-users/ #foss #openSource

Open standards – like the Open Document Format used by #LibreOffice – are extremely beneficial to end users. They reduce vendor lock-in, improve compatibility between apps, and preserve your data for longer: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/01/16/why-open-standards-are-beneficial-to-end-users/ #foss #openSource

@lily @terminaltilt

One of my arguments for #LibreOffice now is : it can run on your computer without internet connection.

In Ubuntu 24.04, if LibreOffice Writer looks hideous, like a Windows 98 program, do this:

$ sudo apt install libreoffice-gtk3 libreoffice-gtk4

... and upon relaunch the interface will look modern and sleek. Why it's not by default is beyond me.

#ubuntu #LibreOffice #linux

New podcast episode! #LibreOffice is available in over 120 languages – but we want to do more! Jonathan Clark recently joined the TDF team to improve LibreOffice’s support for RTL (right-to-left) and CTL (complex text layout) scripts: https://peertube.opencloud.lu/w/c31CgivdZWfLuj6Bt9U4xL #foss #openSource #freesoftware

@rysiek i was talked into dualbooting #linux a decade ago by my then 11-yo student.

an 11-yo. running #ubuntu and #libreoffice like nobody's business. a decade ago.

i guess he was too busy doing the homework i gave him to notice #foss is "unintuitive".

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

just reported a possible @libreoffice Calc bug

overflow appears to be reported as zero, and then used as such.

MS Excel at least throws an error and refuses downstream calculations.

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170299

#libreoffice #opensource

Regarding the last boost: I find LibreOffice to be quite good, it's offline, it's available for Windows if you use that, and it's free. https://www.libreoffice.org

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #AISlop #NoAI #Microsoft #Copilot #MicrosoftOffice #LibreOffice #foss

➡️ Microsoft renames Microsoft Office to Microsoft 365 Copilot App.

Microsoft is thus accepting the consequences of the dramatically deteriorating quality of Office components over the past year. Microsoft Office apparently is history.

see https://www.office.com/

#Microsoft365CopilotApp #Microsoft #MicrosoftOffice #MSOffice #CopilotApp #Microsoft365 #LibreOffice #CollaboraOnline #CollaboraOffice

Fine anno col botto: il Comune di Genova ha stanziato 5 milioni e mezzo di euro per servizi Microsoft. Un milione e 800 mila potevano essere risparmiati

https://softwareliberoliguria.org/fine-anno-col-botto-il-comune-di-genova-ha-stanziato-5-milioni-e-mezzo-di-euro-per-servizi-microsoft-un-milione-e-800-mila-potevano-essere-risparmiati/

Il Comune di Genova ha rinnovato i servizi Microsoft per oltre 5 milioni e mezzo €. Tra questi Office per un importo di un milione e 800 mila € che potevano essere risparmiati adottando LibreOffice.

#softwarelibero #libertàdigitali #libreoffice #office365 #bilancio #linux #migrazione https://mastodon.uno/@ItaLinuxSociety