This is about the most recent version of LibreOffice on Windows 10. I can’t speak for other versions.
My daughter worked hard on her social studies essay. I type things in for her because she’s a really bad typist, but she tells me what to write… but I didn’t remember to manually save her social studies essay yesterday, and for some reason the ThinkPad rebooted, LibreOffice crashed and we lost the whole thing… because autosave was not automatically on when I installed it.
No, recovery didn’t work. We just got a blank file.
I rewrote it for her based on the information we had and what I remembered and tried to make it sound like what a 13-year-old would write because it was basically my fault and she did do the work. I did have her sit with me as I wrote it in case she didn’t like something I wrote, but it was sort of cheating. I’m okay with that cheating since I know she worked hard on it.
First, though, I went into the settings and turned on autosave.
I like LibreOffice, but why the hell is that not on automatically? Honestly, I don’t really understand why someone wouldn’t want their documents autosaved, but I’m pretty sure most people would want that.
This isn’t fucking 1993. I shouldn’t have to remember to save a document anymore and it shouldn’t be lost forever because of it.
Like I said, I like LibreOffice. I don’t really want to trust documents to Microsoft or Google. But this was really annoying.
No it doesn’t. Maybe it can happen if you neglect to reboot your pc in ages but normally it never ever happens.
It hasn’t happened to me ever and won’t because I shutdown the computer at night.
So the solution to forced rebooting is to have to suffer through the ridiculous boot times for windows every day?
Sure. Linux boots faster. But boot time on Windows is still measured in seconds.
Just let Windows update occasionally.
Timeline of Windows users:
Users: Fuck you Microsoft why do I get viruses*?
MS: Okay we will give you security updates.
Users: No, I don’t want to update or ever reboot, you idiot.
MS: Okay, you do you.
Users: Why do I still get viruses?
MS: How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat?
Users: Just fix it.
MS: Fine.
Users: Why is my computer rebooting?
*Virus in this context refers to any security problems.
Patchday is once a month. No need to reboot every day. Also, what “ridiculous boot time”? What hardware do you have?
I mean, it sucks but it is best practice.
You have clearly never used windows in a corporate or education environment. They are nothing but cruel with the update policies
That’s your IT department policy they’ve set, not Windows. Source: am IT and was part of implementing that type of policy at my work because users never fucking apply updates.