Re: This is why libreoffice --headless --convert-to is doubly awesome

On 2025-03-24, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 15:23:47 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
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On 2025-03-24 2:49 p.m., RonB wrote:

On 2025-03-24, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

<https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fbi-warnings-are-true-

fake-file-converters-do-push-malware/>

 

If you use an online file converter or downloader, be sure to analyze
any resulting file from the site, as if they are an executable or
JavaScript, they are most definitely malicious.

 
With Linux these online sites are unnecessary. Converting files is
extremely easy (and fast) using terminal commands.

 
Absolutely. I should mention that part of why I believe that Ubuntu
24.04's slowness was due to the use of Snap is because I use that above
command to convert my work-related docx files to odt. Under Ubuntu, the
process was very slow, presumably because of the slow processor in the
i5-5250u. However, doing the exact same thing under Linux Mint was very
fast, even comparable to doing it on my main laptop. The difference, of
course, is that LibreOffice in Linux Mint is a deb. To say the least,
while Ubuntu revives a machine that Apple abandoned, it is definitely
not a distribution that caters to slower machines.

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LibreOffice on my Ubuntu box is not a snap nor is it a flatpak on the
Fedora box. I may be suffering from amnesia but I believe it was part of
the default install on both systems.  I install it on my work Windows
machines in case I have to read docx stuff  but otherwise I have no use
for it. Unlike 'Quigley Down Under' I don't know how to use it either.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rd_cDImgc4

Apparently the standard is the .deb package install. I looked it up. I think
the LibreOffice installation becomes problematic if you use the Snap version
— since it expects everything in its "sandbox" the LibreOffice add-ins won't
work (or require extra trouble to get working, at least).

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