Mike Bird wrote:

> Unlike KDE 4 versus KDE 3 (or systemd versus sysvinit) LibreOffice is
> a good and compatible replacement for OpenOffice. �Indeed, none of our
> users reported any problems or complaints when we switched from
> OpenOffice to LibreOffice. �Thus there is little reason to maintain
> OpenOffice and I do not foresee a long future for it.
> 
> I also recommend installing LibreOffice from your distro rather than
> from LibreOffice upstream unless you need bleeding edge functionality.

I share the view of William Morder aka Bill. Couple of years ago (might be 5
or 10) I tried LibreOffice. It was not stable and it was messing up with my
documents - unpredictable when it will fail and/or I won't be able to
restore or continue where I left. The main reason to try LibreOffice was
that it would promise to be able to edit MS word documents - well not
really. 
So since I prefer stability over functionality, I switched over to
OpenOffice and never had an issue with it. It might be that I try
LibreOffice once again though, but I have limited time and I found out that
you can't really work on MS document with those open source tools, so the
companies I work for offer office365 where the stupid thing is integrated
or provide a computer or virtual machine where I can work if needed.

In summary Libre was a disappointment and was flagged as unreliable.

regards