![]() ![]() ![]() Third-party sites like the official Libre Office site will supply packages in the most common & widely-used formats, since this guarantees compatibility with as many systems as possible.LibreOffice 7.5 arrived in February 2023 with new features and enhancements like dark mode support, new application and MIME-type icons, an enhanced Single Toolbar UI, improved PDF Export, and more. Because it guarantees that everything will function smoothly & fuss-free within their eco-system. Red Hat, and indeed, most of the top-name distros like to compile from source code for their own, official repos.for the same reason as above. The actual component parts of the app itself are identical. txz, in the case of Slackware - these are primarily construction conventions to keep things working in the 'approved' fashion with the chosen package management system. Either compiled/built/installed from source, or - if using pre-compiled stuff, it usually came as a tarball - which still boiled down to manually installing everything in the right place yourself. Like says, before package management was a "thing", everybody did one of two things in the early days. Maybe if I tried again now to teach anybody about a free office suite I would get much better attention and interest. Probably for that reason M$ went with the subscription model, with "pay for use online". Of course, back then OpenOffice/Libreoffice wasn't quite as featured as it is now. That anger turned into helplessness and I wanted to disappear into a hole for even introducing any program to this family member. Got mad watching them using the word processor and doing almost everything from the toolbar. It's because they had a copy of M$ Office somewhere, and I'm not saying anything else about it. They weren't even overly excited the program was being offered for free download. Then I discovered they weren't very enthused about it. I spent about half an hour teaching them how to use the Writer, how to use the auto-format, showing them that the auto-format worked in other programs of the suite such as the spreadsheet, and more. ![]() ![]() I had a copy of OpenOffice-dot-org v4 (predecessor of Libreoffice) which was "by Apache" at the time, to introduce to a family member. Nearly 10 years ago I had an experience which caused me to desire not to help anybody with anything about computers. ![]()
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