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Have to chime in on this one.

I have mostly migrated from MS Office to Libre Office. Still have 1 spreadsheet with some custom VB that cannot migrate yet.

Anyways, use Calc, Draw and Write pretty extensively. Also can say that I have experienced MANY crashes of all three programs, LOSING changes. Running Linux and have checked logs etc, but cannot find cause. Most errors I looked up had others asking the same question with no solution.

Libre Office is great. But you better save your files often. Crashes? Yes, more often than MS. Freeze at 100% CPU and have to force stop / kill from command line? Yes too. MS does not do that (even using WINE).

All that said, I still love Libre Office. I love that it's free. I love that no damn MS updates or keys and all of that.

But it crashes or pegs CPU kind of often.

None of our files have VB. I changed any incompatible templates several years ago to be compatible. We have not had any issues since then. The default settings were changed to save all new files in Microsoft formats (2007-2019). About one out of five of our computer shop customers, that we installed LibreOffice on their new PC's, needed to go back to MS Office due to Excel files issues, when opening highly customized spreadsheets from their employers.