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Anecdotally, I'm "the Linux person" at my company, so I have LibreOffice on my machine. Everyone else is on Office 365. I rarely need an office suite, and LO does the job for me, but with the online MS Office apps, seems like LibreOffice is further from professional adoption than ever before.

The online collaboration aspect seems to be the killer feature. If I load Excel Online in a browser to edit a file together with someone else, that just works, and it handles simple use cases very well. I suppose the web version of Excel wouldn't deal with complex spreadsheets well, but complex MS Office files are also prone to fail in LibreOffice.

I continue to run LibreOffice because it does what I need, but seems like cloud office suites are now expected to be an option, and the FOSS options there seem to be way behind.




Collabora Office is the online collaboration version of LO, and it works well enough that Collabora sell it to companies as a service.




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