Should I still use apache openoffice?

minrvovrfc

tomscharbach We live in a world in which Windows is the dominant player (as evidenced by the OpenOffice blog post "More than 333 Million Downloads of Apache OpenOffice" (August 20, 2022)) celebrating 333 million downloads. The stats suggest that 89% of OpenOffice downloads are by Windows users while only 1.4% are by Linux users:

Windows is losing market share too slowly. Sadly when I proposed OpenOffice-dot-org to somebody they much preferred a "dirty" copy of M$ Office which wasn't even the current. I died a little inside wanting to help people in real life.

kaktuspalme

minrvovrfc
Well, I'm kind of impressed it's 1.4%. Who on earth downloads OpenOffice on Linux from their website and not from the package manager?

tomscharbach

kaktuspalme Well, I'm kind of impressed it's 1.4%. Who on earth downloads OpenOffice on Linux from their website and not from the package manager?

Probably more people than you or I would expect. Linux seems to have moved on from OpenOffice in favor of LibreOffice. OpenOffice is not included in the Ubuntu repositories, for example, and Ubuntu accounts for the lion's share of the Linux desktop market, as I understand it. OpenOffice isn't in Flathub either, so a Flatpak is out as an installation option. I don't know about Snap or Appimage availability.

stalebrim

kaktuspalme Who on earth downloads OpenOffice on Linux from their website and not from the package manager?

People who insist on doing things under Linux like they did in Windows XP over ten years ago.

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