Comment by sombragris

Lawyer, translator and professor here. I have an Office 365 subscription and I got native Word and other MS Office apps installed on my windows partition. But, since I use Linux on the desktop, and MS chose not to offer their office suite as Linux native apps, and they make it near impossible to use the Windows apps under Wine, I use LibreOffice.

And it works really well. I can use it and exchange documents with people using Word without problem in the enormous majority of the cases.

And the fact that LibreOffice is a real GUI app built using the WIMP paradigm instead of that stupid ribbon interface that forces me to use the mouse, is a very significant net positive for me.

People who say that LibreOffice has a bad UI or that is a bad piece of software are just more vocal.