the progress is slow tho

Just about what we should expect from the same FSF that has been developing GNU Hurd for more than 30 years now?

paywall

Probably doesn’t help in this case, but check out Bypass Paywalls Clean :)

a robust free office suite

The few times I tried using LibreOffice, it’s anything but robust. Very bad UX, and even worse, it frequently crashes and fails to recover, resulting in data loss. And I’ve only been using Linux for more than 10 years now.

Although it is true that they now fully use HTTPS, the claim about signature verification is untrue; they only perform a CRC-32 check on the downloaded executable, which is not cryptographically secure.

This is the wording from the blog post. Tom’s Hardware just rephrased it very poorly. (see e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/1ixgas1/articles_from_tomshardwarecom_should_be_banned/)