"Libre software" means software that respects users' freedom and community. Roughly, it means that the users have the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software.
In particular, four freedoms define Free Software:
The freedom to run the program, for any purpose.
Placing restrictions on the use of Free Software, such as time ("30 days trial period", "license expires January 1st, 2004") purpose ("permission granted for research and non-commercial use", "may not be used for benchmarking") or geographic area ("must not be used in country X") makes a program non-free.
The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs.
Placing legal or practical restrictions on the comprehension or modification of a program, such as mandatory purchase of special licenses, signing of a Non-Disclosure-Agreement (NDA) or - for programming languages that have multiple forms or representation - making the preferred human way of comprehending and editing a program ("source code") inaccessible also makes it proprietary (non-free). Without the freedom to modify a program, people will remain at the mercy of a single vendor.
The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor.
Software can be copied/distributed at virtually no cost. If you are not allowed to give a program to a person in need, that makes a program non-free. This can be done for a charge, if you so choose.
The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits.
Not everyone is an equally good programmer in all fields. Some people don't know how to program at all. This freedom allows those who do not have the time or skills to solve a problem to indirectly access the freedom to modify. This can be done for a charge.
People will be able to help you better if you describe your specific problem. "Not super ideal" and "does anyone have tutorials" are very vague descriptions.
Also there are specialized communities for LibreOffice at [email protected] and [email protected] as well as support forums for it elsewhere, maybe try asking there too.
Fair enough, my specific examples are as simple as adding multiple data series to a single graph, using the calculations in cells as you would on excel. I really had a hard time getting any logarithm to function, I would have to use a calculator and input the values. It was just a little annoying but not a problem, per say. The other motive of this post was to check activity on where to find libreoffice support on lemmy. I'm in college and this upcoming term sounds very graph heavy.
Are you referring to the excel-type functions? Or something else?
I've had troubles with getting the excel-type functions to allow a single graph to have multiple data series, changing bounds, "simple" things like that. Also importing those graphs into the pdf-viewing/editing software tends to do wonky things to my formatting.
Found this: Libre Tuts
I'm not an expert at all, hopefully that helps, he's got a fair bit of stuff in it.
Thank you, hopefully between this and the official libreoffice help page, I can figure out how to get my graphs looking neater and highlighting the info I'm looking for.