alt Hacker NewsIs Office compatibility a solved problem? Haven't used LibreOffice or OpenOffice for years but I was always met with slightly different formatting, incompatible Office quirks et cetera. I know they have their own document format which works fine but the biggest problem is (was?) interoperability with majority of the rest of the professional (and academic) world on regular Office installations.
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Libreoffice has become quite good last years.
Not 100% compatible, but its become rather usable, for most use cases.
Definitely not as problematic as 10 years ago.
Compatibilty is probably 95% or greater. If you're a very demanding Excel user you might have some trouble (I never have; I do my taxes in LibreOffice using a spreadsheet designed for Excel and it's fine).
Never had an issue with a Word doc, at least not in the past 5 years or more.
No.
Yes and no
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