

Still, if multilingual support is important to you, LibreOffice may have an advantage. You not only have to run the separate Help Pack installer, but you must also run a Custom Install of the main suite to activate locales other than English. In practice, however, only about 54 of them are supported on Windows, and installing them is cumbersome. The LibreOffice website lists these Help Packs for a whopping 113 languages. LibreOffice differs in that it provides a universal program installer but separate downloads for localized online help. offers localized versions of its suite in 25 languages (more, if you include older releases).

Then again, the JRE that came bundled with my installer wasn't the latest version. For LibreOffice, that means the additional hassle of downloading and running a separate installer. Having a JRE installed isn't strictly necessary for either suite, but it enables some features, and the database manager won't run without it. 's biggest installation advantage over LibreOffice is that it comes bundled with the Java Runtime Environment (JRE).
