what about kde caligra ?

and what is your favorite linux distribution ?

im looking at kaos os with caligra

I can’t speak for the present state of the Wordperfect suite, I haven’t seen it this decade. IBM sold Lotus Domino to HCL in 2019. I don’t know if that deal included the rest of the Lotus intellectual property or not. IBM ended support on the office suite in 2014 and hadn’t updated it since 2008. So it’s long since end of life and it never moved to 64 bit.

Google’s office suite has a competent word processor in it, I know people have used it to write books and it was fine, and I use it at work to collaborate on product documentation. Its spreadsheet is useless to me so I never use it. The only spreadsheets that can handle the size sheets I work with are Excel or Libre Office Calc, so those are the two I use. Libre Office Calc actually works better with my data than Excel does. From time to time I end up having to use all three. Libre Office may be unglamorous but it works.

What I meant is,

do you know if IBM updated Lotus 123 to 2025 standards, or Quattro Pro spreadsheet, I understand Word perfect is still updating their word processor and they bought Quattro pro

I guess while we’re at it, after Excel, among the free spreadsheets,

google sheets, Apple, libre office, caligra sheets,

which one is best?

I still use Windows 10 with no plans to upgrade. I’ve wondered about moving to Linux Mint and using either libre office or caligra office, for Linux

I sure HOPE the modern software is better, it’s running on hardware that’s supercomputer level compared to what Lotus 1-2-3 was running on. That’s not hyperbole, a modern PC is about 500 times faster than a Cray X-MP, which was the fastest supercomputer in the world in 1985, when Lotus 1-2-3 ruled the software world. What was great about Lotus 1-2-3 wasn’t how it compares to the software of today. It’s that it made such good use of the hardware of its time that people would buy that computer just to run it. That kind of software doesn’t come along very often.

how good are free open free spreadsheet open source like google or libre calligrato lotus 123

Open source, no. Free download, probably, if you know where to look.

Lotus didn’t stay in this business long, divesting the Dataspeed assets in 1989. The actual QuoTrek and Signal product lines remained around for quite awhile under its new ownership.