If the screen is garbled when launching Linux Mint in Virtualbox, switch to console with HOST+F1 (e.g. Do this by opening up the settings for your VM and select Display -> Graphics Controller. If the screen is black when launching Linux Mint in Virtualbox, change the VirtualBox graphics controller to 'VMSVGA'. For more information on this or to re-enable it read. Nevertheless, I have to acknowledge that the distributed versions of LibreOffice are useful for new Linux users with MS Office background.The Snap Store is disabled in Linux Mint 20. I wish I had learned something like R in younger years when I was addicted to Excel. Meanwhile I produce more plain text and markdown files than the classical document formats. Once you understand why software is packaged and distributed like this, the complexity becomes less discouraging. The product version is less important than a general understanding of what you are doing with either tool.

A few months ago I wrote a fairly complicated ODF document based on one of my ODF letter templates using 1.5 on a very old IBM laptop. What I'm doing personally with office suites can be done with any version of AOO since version 2.3 of 2008 and with most LO versions as well (some versions had bugs that affected me, so I skipped those versions and reported the bugs with some success).

I dislike the ever changing LO shortcuts, bars and menues. Nevertheless, I prefer AOO on Linux because personally because I'm more used to it.

I expect that AOO 4.1.2 is the very last or second last version of this branch. LO supports a lot more foreign file formats which is particularly useful on Linux where the original software is unvaillable.

Whoever is forced to work with large/complex MS documents, should use MS software on MS Windows or Softmaker Office. Anyway: Installing Apache OpenOffice on GNU/Linux Distributor's packages install semi-automatically within seconds or minutes. New Linux users don't know how to install 3rd party software.

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