I find the Libre Office Update tool for the Windows version of the Suite is not really worth having at all. A notice will pop up indicating that an update is available, but the tool just goes to the Libre Office web site for you to download the full package manually. Compare that to the Pale Moon web browser, which will download small update packages when a new version becomes available. You do not need to remove the old version of Pale Moon to install the update, because its update tool takes care of it automatically.
Libre Office is a high profile Open Source application, I am surprised that their version for the Windows operating system does not have an easy upgrade path. I think that working on the Upgrade tool would be a worthy upgrade to the Suite, and the current version is holding back adoption of it.
Disclaimer: I am not a programmer, so I can't write an upgrade tool on my own. Also my employers owns any software I create (employment agreement).
[Ed note: I was debating whether or not to run this story. Sounds like it could lead to a good discussion. If LibreOffice can download deltas on other platforms, why not on Windows? What practical reason could there be?]
(Score: 5, Funny) by Gaaark on Thursday November 10 2016, @03:30AM
One true office to screw us all, and in the darkness ream us.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by Celestial on Thursday November 10 2016, @03:59AM
Most attorneys and law offices seem to use Corel WordPerfect Office. At least the ones I work with do, anyway. That would make it more qualified to be the work of Sauron. :P
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @05:17AM
Yeah, I've seen that in my experience as well. I think that can be 100% explained by software momentum. The higher ups started out with WordPerfect and have refused to move to anything else. However, that trend does seem to be reversing because the larger firms are transitioning away because they have non-US clients and WP doesn't support Unicode or they like the Office 365 + 2016 use case of being able to access and edit anywhere and they don't have the same sort of compatibility issues. Smaller and medium size firms are also moving away because they are either too cheap (last I checked WP was almost $200 bucks), momentum of their own from new blood, Office 365 features, or are copying what the big firms do in an attempt to copy their success.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @01:58PM
WordPerfect does line numbering the way that lawyers need it done ("pleading line numbering"). Courts have very picky requirements about line numbering, and Word never did it well. WordPerfect supports it out of the box. Some academics and architects still use WordPerfect for right-hand margin line numbering, too.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @04:12AM
> One true office to screw us all,
...which is why I still use Office 97 when I'm doing the writing/creating. Last version that does not phone home (afaik), still has normal menus and is damn fast on recent hardware. A bit of a pain to get working on Windows 7, but there are tips out there to help. I usually install this first on any new system so the MS installer doesn't muck up anything else.