Hickory, LibreOffice I have been told is better then OpenOffice. I too have used OpenOffice for years without trouble . Recently when I had to have my hard drive replaced the folks doing it installed LibreOffice. When I questioned them they said that Open was sold or something ...I forget what ...but that the people that created Open moved on and created Libre and continue to support it. There may also have been something said about no ongoing support for Open.....don't quote me on all of that but I do know that they said Libre was better and the folks at Libre used to be at Open.
I've hardly used it and don't do much word processing but so far no problems.