I like how their release announcements always kind of read like press releases. Even when it’s just the third maintenance release for some normal release train.
LibreOffice is the GOAT of office software
I’ve had many bugs with it (like dark theme that seems completely broken)
Without a doubt. Very good MS Office compatibility now, alongside a user interface that gets me to what I need and is heavily customisable, and very well done integration with Zotero (the best thing ever for citations) through an extension comes together to being by far my most preferred office suite even when I have to use Windows. In addition, Draw has saved me at least a few times when I’ve had to deal with some PDFs that other software finds difficult to work with.
For sure, definitely one of the best and one of the most remarkable FOSS out there
OnlyOffice looks so much better and simpler.
How is OnlyOffice’s offline performance and support for Graphite smart font technology? I use Graphite fonts and no support for those is a deal-breaker.
No idea. The reason I recommend it it is the far sleeker interface and beginner friendliness. Besides the better looking UI it does not really add anything.
Its slower
What do you people do with a word processor?
How did you test it’s apparent ‘slowness’? I use it and have no issue.
Run it on ancient hardware. If it chokes on computers from the '90s, it’s slow.
Isn’t only office limited to Microsoft office formats though?
I think you can also export open document style.
It’s never mentioned on their website. I’ll have to install it some day to check it out.
Also, libre office has randomly crashed for me on multiple distros now, while doing really mundane things like… resizing a window or trying to save the document as PDF.
I will second only office. It’s more stable for me.
OnlyOffice crashed for me repeatedly on Debian, LibreOffice did not.
But otherwise yes, I prefer OnlyOffice as well for a much friendlier interface.
LibreOffice just commonly puts mundane parameters God knows where.
i have tried self-hosting libreoffice with nextcloud and it sucks. can anyone help?
Onlyoffice seems a little bit better.
selfhosting libreoffice? what do you mean?
What about it sucks?
I self-host Collabora Code in Nextcloud and think it’s excellent.
Best Office software 🥰
It’s disgusting how many businesses have been herded into wasting money on products they can be using for free, then convincing customers they “need more money.”
LibreOffice is pretty far from Microsoft Office. Even Google’s suite is more polished. Like it or not, funding behind a project helps build a stronger product.
Probably better to think of spending their money on an open ecosystem, instead of just using something for “free”. If software products have sufficient funding they can better improve the products and can continue to exist - without some form of monetisation most wouldn’t still be around.
I believe it’s a chicken and an egg problem.
If free software projects had more users, those users would improve the software further with donations, patches, and bug reports.
I think both can be true. I just mean if we’re talking about a company paying for Microsoft Office vs LibreOffice.
No.
There is enough LibreOffice users to realize that the curve of the donations over users isn’t proportional.
When was the last time you donated?
Exactly.
Dealing with people like you is exhausting.
Easy ignore, though.
Libreoffice is not 100% Microsoft word though dawg
I like LibreOffice but it needs to allow import/export of hotkey sets or keyboard shortcut sets.
