William Morder wrote:

> I don't use LibreOffice myself, and prefer the OpenOffice version that has
> been kept alive by Apache.

+1 here

I have been using KDE since 2003 and without any issue since 2005. Probably
I got smart enough between 2003 and 2005. 
I use OpenOffice since 2007 - now hosted by Apache foundation. I usually
download the deb files and install them via dpkg -i

I never had issue except few bugs I reported. When someone complains I think
might be the approach is wrong, the setup or the way the system is beeing
setup or handled.

I look forward when dep will get mature and stop bother us with issues and
problems :)

regards