I have heard they’re the main two choices for FOSS enthusiasts. What are their pros and cons?

I have used LibreOffice so far and I’m very impressed with the ui as it is much more visually appealing than IWork and Microsoft Office.

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    6 days ago

    In 2010, Oracle bought Sun Microsystems, which held the trademark for the OpenOffice.org project. The open-source community that developed OpenOffice.org was worried that Oracle would do bad things, so they set up a non-profit, The Document Foundation, and established the LibreOffice project. Most of the outside contributors moved over to contributing to LibreOffice instead.

    A few years later, Oracle donated the OpenOffice trademark to the Apache Software Foundation, which is why Apache OpenOffice now theoretically exists. But yeah, it hasn’t seen a non-bug-fix release since 2014. You simply want to use LibreOffice at this point…