Comparison of LibreOffice on the Pinephone, on the ClockworkPi DevTerm & on other Raspberry Pi devices

Last Updated on October 25, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org

A Swiss physiologist installed LibreOffice on the Pinephone, it took him almost a month, here he shares what he experienced

• He received support in the Pine64 forum:

https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=16614

• He worked for a month everyday a little bit on it, and it is published on 5 threads in 370 posts in the Pine64 forum.
• 16`580 people where interested in it and visited this topic in the Pine64 forum to this date.
• LibreOffice is now available in the postmarket OS software store for the Pinephone and can be downloaded from there.
• It looks great now on the Pinephone.
• But the Swiss physiologist does not use it to this date and does not know any other users who use it on the Pinephone.
• Everybody is welcome to download and test it.
• The Swiss physiologist installed Abiword on his Pinephone and reported about it here:

https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=18804

• There he found a second Pinephone user alaraajavamma who uses Abiword on his Pinephone as well.
• alaraajavamma says Abiword is better on the Pinephone than LibreOffice.
• Everybody is welcome to test this.

Clockworkpi DevTerm (which is based on the Raspberry CM4) and LibreOffice

In the clockworkpi forum a user complains about the DevTerm that basically nothing works on the device exept for LibreOffice which he uses for writing:

user Tootles:

«

• Thanks for this – but I can’t get network access to install another dm if I can’t login to the gui.

• I’ve not got the inclination to try and remember how to get on wifi through bash.
• I’m just going to reflash the thing (third time’s the charm?)
• and not try again to put programming stuff on it.
• The DevTerm just isn’t made for programming,
• I can see that now.

• It’s just a novelty that’s not capable of running anything more than a web browser and basic office utilities, so I’ll just use it for writing.
• At least LibreOffice works.»

https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/what-the-hell-is-this/8482/4

LibreOffice on other Raspberry Pi devices

• LibreOffice is part of the Raspberry Pi OS image with desktop and recommended software.
• This image runs on the Raspberry Pi 1 to 5 and on the Raspberry Pi zero:

• Kajidataonline from Malaysia did not use the Raspberry Pi OS distro with pre-installed LibreOffice but intalled LibreOffice on a Raspberry Pi zero in less than 4 minutes:

• But he writes in the comments that he uses now the Raspberry Pi zero 2 w for LibreOffice.
• The Swiss physiologists tested LibreOffice also on the Raspberry Pi zero 2 w. But to start it up took 45 seconds, and he will not use Libreoffice on this device either.

LibreOffice has 2370 matches in the Raspberry Pi forum:

https://forums.raspberrypi.com/search.php?keywords=libreoffice&sid=482a78825b6b8543527f7a41c735d03b

The Swiss physiologist has not yet given up his project to make a Qtek 9000 for the year 2023 out of his Pinephone:

The Pinephone with it’s keyboard: a Qtek 9000 for the year 2023?

All the resources how to do this can be found in this journal under the tag «Pinephone»:

https://petergamma.org/tag/pinephone/

Everybody is welcome to participate in this project.