If one depends on opening old MS documents, MS Office often fails while LibreOffice (LO) does the job -- been there, done that; e.g. book manuscripts of old professors who close to never migrate to newer versions, old calculations in Excel, etc.
Formatting isn't even the prime issue there. MS Office utterly fails -- for me that's _peak incompetence_: flooding the world with a overly complex format, that they cannot reliabily open themselves.
So, depending on the context LO _might_ be an issue, or it totally is the opposite: the go-to solution to a serious problem.
If one depends on opening old MS documents, MS Office often fails while LibreOffice (LO) does the job -- been there, done that; e.g. book manuscripts of old professors who close to never migrate to newer versions, old calculations in Excel, etc. Formatting isn't even the prime issue there. MS Office utterly fails -- for me that's _peak incompetence_: flooding the world with a overly complex format, that they cannot reliabily open themselves.
So, depending on the context LO _might_ be an issue, or it totally is the opposite: the go-to solution to a serious problem.