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Growing up on windows 98 and xp I still don't understand what people like about modern looking apps

Yes, 400M downloads are like 400M acceptances of mediocrity and awful design. It’s always been so slow too in my opinion.

You can improve a Linux distro by simply not including LibreOffice.

Sigh.

Most FOSS projects are basically incapable of updating their UI since the user base tends to be a collection of people most resistant to any change.

You’d almost be better starting a project from scratch than trying to fix libreoffice.

Like most open source projects unfortunately.