I wrote an Entire Book with Free and Open-Source Software

LibreOffice, an office suite from the Document Foundation contains all the features you'd expect in an office suite, including (but not limited to) the ability to create text, spreadsheet, and presentation documents. So why aren't more people using it? In this video, Jay discusses some of the unreasonable stigma LibreOffice suffers from. Is LibreOffice inferior to Microsoft Office? Well, Jay wrote an entire book with LibreOffice - and naturally, has some thoughts! Check out Jay's new book: Mastering Ubuntu Server (4th Edition) available here ➜ https://ubuntuserverbook.com Thanks to Linode for sponsoring today's video! Get your very own cloud Linux server here ➜ https://learnlinux.link/akamai Support Learn Linux TV Note: Commission may be earned for any and all links presented here. Set up your own cloud server with Akamai Connected Cloud (sponsor) ➜ https://learnlinux.link/akamai Become a channel member here on YouTube ➜ https://learnlinux.link/join Become a Patron on Patreon ➜ https://learnlinux.link/patron Check out my latest book, Mastering Ubuntu Server 4th Edition ➜ http://ubuntuserverbook.com Affiliate store for Linux compatible hardware/accessories ➜ https://learnlinux.link/amazon Check out the Tiny Pilot KVM for your Homelab ➜ https://learnlinux.link/tinypilot ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🕐 Time Codes 00:00 - Pre-intro 01:15 - Intro 01:41 - Get your very own cloud Linux server with Linode (sponsor) 03:23 - Not all open-source applications are created equally 05:22 - LibreOffice - A great alternative to proprietary software 06:20 - If LibreOffice is so great, why is there still stigma? 07:32 - How Linux distributions actually create stigma around LibreOffice 10:51 - What's my preferred source to obtain the latest LibreOffice? 12:17 - Some people just hate change, and dislike things by default━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎓 Learn Linux TV Your source for Linux-related Fun and Learning! https://www.learnlinux.tv https://community.learnlinux.tv https://learnlinux.link/jay ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🤝 Affiliate Notice Some of the links mentioned in this description are affiliate links. If you purchase through them, it helps keep the content flowing. https://www.learnlinux.tv/content-ethics ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ Use Content Responsibly Learn Linux TV shares technical content intended to teach and help you, but it comes with no warranty. The channel is not liable for any damages from its use. Always ensure you have proper permissions, follow company policies, and comply with all applicable laws while working with technology. #LibreOffice #opensource #linuxdesktop