Re: Understatement
I am trying to be fair here (used to use Libre office, but have to use MS Office now, as a lot of my work involves Exchange, plus I get MS office for free as well, and have to spend almost no time getting it to work with our servers at work, so I use MS Office out of laziness as much as anything).
So, I haven't used Libre office in a while.
But I question the need for a "launcher" . Maybe it helped with ease of use in the DOS days, when it just provided a menu that replaced the commands the user would otherwise need, but anyone using any recent OS already has a more than capable launcher already installed (be it Finder, Windows Explorer or any Linux desktop).
I'm not too concerned about the "bloat" factor, after all, most launchers are only a few megabytes, and most computers have gigabytes of RAM and potentially terabytes of drive space, so a few megabytes is insignificant. My concern is security, and particularly bugs. Especially if the launcher includes components that run on startup.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
