Depending on the type of work they do, some may never run into any of the “longstanding bugs and annoyances” that *I* have, and some may encounter new bugs and glitches that I never happen to come across. Obviously, different users will weight the pros and cons of Fresh versus Still differently. After several months I got *so annoyed* by Still in Mint that I ended up installing a LibreOffice Fresh PPA. In fact, back in the day when I was bouncing back and forth between Windows 7 and Linux Mint, I was running LibreOffice Fresh in Windows and LibreOffice Still (the repo version) in Mint. And even though that bug (excessive CPU use) wasn’t a complete showstopper and only cropped up in certain documents in the 64-bit Windows version alone, it got diagnosed and fixed pretty quickly since it qualified as “major.” In seven or eight years, I’m pretty sure I’ve only had to roll back *once* (to an earlier Fresh release) because of a new bug. I’m not a bleeding-edge, beta-testing kind of guy, but I’ve consistently found Fresh releases’ new features, improvements, and — sorry for the all-caps, but this is important — EARLIER FIXES OF LONGSTANDING BUGS AND ANNOYANCES THAT ARE STILL PRESENT IN STILL to be worth the odd NEW glitch, bug, or regression. The developers have published a video on YouTube in which they highlight new features of the LibreOffice 7.1 release.
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