Hot Take LibreOffice 26.8 set a new first-week download record

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LibreOffice 26.8 was download more than 1 million times in its first week of release, which The Document Foundation say is the highest first-week figure of any release of the free office suite.

Released on 26 August, LibreOffice 26.8 saw 1,031,162 downloads from the official website, which provides installers for Windows, macOS and Linux, during the first seven days.

As many Linux users update via other sources, like the Snap Store, Flathub and PPAs, the real figure will be even higher than that.

“This is the highest number of downloads in the first week of any LibreOffice release”, The Document Foundation said in a blog post to recap the impact the new version has had (it also gained traction on social media too).

LibreOffice 26.8 sets a new first-week download record

LibreOffice 26.8 was download more than 1 million times in its first week of release, which The Document Foundation say is the highest first-week figure

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[Sunshine-boy]

LibreOffice is slow and clunky, especially when you compare it to modern competitors like WPS Office. The performance is sluggish and clearly lacks the optimization needed for today's fast-paced workflows. the UI is very ugly and completely outdated. Instead of celebrating download records, the developers better invest heavily in modernizing the suite's interface and overall user experience.

The software still fails in core business scenarios because some features are not completely compatible with Microsoft Office. Sharing documents often results in broken formatting and layout nightmares that waste users' time.

hitting 1 million downloads doesn't mean LibreOffice is good. It just means that a large number of people either can't pay for MS Office and are settling for the most visible free option, or they simply don't know about much better, free alternatives like WPS Office. A high download count in this case merely measures budget constraints and a lack of awareness, not software excellence.