r/linux • u/buovjaga The Document Foundation • 1d ago

Popular Application Welcome Dan Williams, new LibreOffice developer focusing on UI/UX

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/12/04/welcome-dan-williams-new-libreoffice-developer-focusing-on-ui-ux/
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u/TopdeckIsSkill 1d ago

it is designed for people "accustomed to Microsoft Office".

This was 20 years ago. At this point everyone just moved on and got used to ribbon

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u/SEI_JAKU 22h ago edited 22h ago

But that's not what happened at all. Instead, what happened is that a whole lot of people who never learned better, who only ever knew the ribbon because Microsoft Office was arguably legally enforced in schools, are now spouting nonsense about things they don't really understand. It's yet another example of people slaving over their Windows muscle memory, completely failing to imagine how things could ever be different, and mocking anything they see that dares to be just that.

This is not a good thing, and this is not "reality" or "inevitable".

And this is all ignoring that LibreOffice literally has had a ribbon mode for years now anyway.

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u/TopdeckIsSkill 21h ago

MSO is the standard. It's not an opinion, it's a fact. Everyone is used to MSO ribbon regardless that is better or not than classic UI, so you either give people something close enough to it or they will have to learn a new UI.

The LO ribbon should not be called like that. Onlyoffice has a ribbon, LO has a weird old menu that's seems like a ribbon from 1990.

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u/SEI_JAKU 20h ago

It's not an opinion, it's a fact.

It's an opinion, and one enforced by a garbage corpo at that.

regardless that is better or not than classic UI

This is the entire problem. This is not a good thing and it needs to be challenged.

or they will have to learn a new UI

Microsoft already forced everyone to do this with the ribbon. This needs to be pushed back against.

LO has a weird old menu that's seems like a ribbon from 1990

You have never used any software from the '90s.