The DesktopEditors github repo appears to have actual releases now, with multiple download options for various Linux distros, plus Windows and MacOS. While some refinement may still be needed, this represents a usable release without requiring manual building.

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Yep, this is a product from Eastern Europe, our public institutions have decades worth of files in Microsoft's formats that we still work with on daily basis and that nobody will ever rewrite from scratch. It's not necessary to support every new feature, but opening stuff from 2000s and 2010s and saving it without compatibility issues is like mandatory if you want to ship an office application here. It's understandable that a company targeting our local markets prioritized OOXML and not ODF. I do hope the Western fork puts more effort into the open format now though.

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