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$100,000,000+ https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/13/who-is-miriam-adelson-the-pro-israel-donor-trump-lauded-at-the-knesset

Whoa my bad I didnt' know I could just change every setting and spend hours to make it look like something else does out of the box.

I don't think LibreOffice is 'bad' either, the functionality is great and the foss license is superior to Onlyoffice

But when I compare it to Word and OnlyOffice (especially OnlyOffice since it's free and open source) it lacks that polish and good default settings.

Not everything has to be to be VIM, good defaults are very important especially for novice users. And OnlyOffice has understood that very well.

I would like for LibreOffice to succeed. Therefore I hope they take some design cues from OnlyOffice or have a good UI developer even come up with something better. Basically I hope the guy in the post is going to town and heavily modernizes the current default LibreOffice layout.

Oh so after getting valid examples of objectively bad UI design you start complaining?

Nothing will be learned. People will just fearmonger and do lesser evilism again to justify not voting for anyone else.

I never tried looking into UI options, I use just OnlyOffice nowadays but LibreOffice should consider turning that on by default if it's an option.

OnlyOffice also has a 10/10 screen when you open it, instantly asking whether you want to open a text document, PDF, make a slideshow etc. It's just very polished and they actually put effort into the UI.

I asked it how many Israelis were killed by the IDF on october 7 and it actually responded so that's a first

Support to boycott it is actually fairly big but the political lobby gets in the way. Israel has a massive grip on Europe. The Netherlands is a bit of a surprise in this lineup, they are pretty strongly infiltrated by Israel. Guess they didn't appreciate what Israel did to Joost Klein.

I'll give you an example since you clearly don't understand heuristics.

Look how OnlyOffice highlights selected buttons with a light gray tint.

LibreOffice on the other hand highlights them with very strong blue color, which draws the users attention and distracts them from the document.

There are many more very bad design choices that LibreOffice makes, but it's just a cluttered mess in general and can really put in some work to hide away all those buttons. Yes if you know where they are and use them every single day then it's more efficient, but it takes up a lot of (mind) space to see all those buttons all the time.

LibreOffice is always this cluttered. It's an outdated mess of a GUI.

They can develop multiple UI's. One for normal users and a classic one for people who like everything without a single menu bar or drop down menu to abstract the clutter away

The insane amount of clutter. Compare LibreOffice to OnlyOffice