content: Libre office.... the most embarrassing fucking project to all of the open source world...   That would be GNU Hurd, Emacs, and anything else designed by Richard Stalinman (a communist hijacker taking credit for other people's work, who never actually created anything good or original).  but the only real alternative to microsoft...  Hell no. There are multiple open source alternatives to MS Office.  I'd recommend either "GNOME Office" (an informal name for AbiWord, Gnumeric, Dia, Evolution, DB, GIMP, etc) or "KDE Office" (aka Calligra).  There are also more stable LibreOffice variants like Apache OpenOffice and its various commercially-supported distributions. People with sufficiently high IQ can rule the world from the command line and a text editor like Vim.  This includes editing (light) markup documents that compile to any document format, presentation, etc.  GUI spreadsheets are still useful, but there are command line tools for querying SQL databases and inserting / updating selected records (ex. in YAML).  Seriously, why should having 4 spreadsheets open take up 11 motherfucking GIGS of GPU memory within Linux? GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER LIBRE!  You're clearly doing something wrong.  Maybe it's your misconfigured Xorg driver or window manager? Don't jump to conclusions based on first impressions.  Different software takes time to learn and get used to.