I've installed LibreOffice, and have a comment

[Jeffrey Needle]

One poster made the comment that installing LibreOffice from the terminal 
is easy, so why not do it now.  I've gone ahead and done it.  Let me tell 
you why I very much prefer Synaptic.

The instructions for installing on Ubuntu are incorrect.  At one place, 
they advise you to right-click and choose "Open with terminal."  Right 
clicking at the indicated point offers no such option.  I did manage to 
work around it and get it installed, but letting Synaptic take care of 
all the stuff would have been glorious.

My opinion: so long as Linux lacks a universal installer -- to handle 
just about any situation -- it will scare off some people.  Folks, for 
better or worse, have gotten quite used to Windows Installer.  Say what 
you want, and as faulty as MSI is, it still beats having to type all the 
instructions in terminal.  It's a bit cryptic for those of us weaned on 
Windows or even for folks like myself weaned on DOS.

Just a thought.