If there is already a thread about Office subscriptions and viable alternatives please merge this with the existing thread.
Otherwise, I'm fucking done with these leeches. It's bad enough they lock you into a recurring subscription that for all intensive porpoises you can't do without unless you are up on the tech stuff (I am not). Now they have jacked up the price 30% with the justification that it's for the added benefits of having Copilot butt into every damn thing you work on.
I don't want / need Copilot for the rudimentary crap I do on my home PC. I use it at work a little bit, but have not once wished I had access to it at home. I've looked around and read a little bit about LibreOffice. Seems it has a decent enough following in the Linux community so was wondering if anyone here uses it.
Is it worth a shit? Will I be able to still open all my existing shit? Will I be able to make new shit, send it to someone with regular Microsoft Office and they can open it? Or am I and the rest of humanity just fucked over by the bloodsuckers in Redmond?