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LibreOffice

A complete free office suite.

LibreOffice provides a word processor (Writer), spreadsheet (Calc), presentation tool (Impress), database front-end (Base), drawing application (Draw), and equation editor (Math) in a single integrated suite. It reads and writes Microsoft Office formats (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx) as well as the OpenDocument formats it uses natively, with a generally high level of interoperability that has improved steadily over the years.

LibreOffice forked from OpenOffice.org in 2010 after Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems raised concerns about the future of OpenOffice as a community project. The Document Foundation, set up explicitly to govern LibreOffice independently of any one corporate sponsor, has stewarded the project ever since. OpenOffice continued separately under the Apache Foundation but has been functionally moribund for years; LibreOffice is the actively-maintained successor.

LibreOffice ships preinstalled on most Linux distributions and is the default office suite in many enterprise Linux deployments. The release cadence is twice-yearly, with a "Still" branch (older, more conservative) and a "Fresh" branch (newer features). Collabora Online provides the same editors as a browser-based collaborative tool, often combined with Nextcloud.

Debian/Ubuntu: sudo apt install libreoffice
Fedora/RHEL:   sudo dnf install libreoffice
Arch:          sudo pacman -S libreoffice-fresh
macOS:         brew install --cask libreoffice