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Of course (europe.pub)
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.zip/c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world/p/1899107/of-course

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[–] 33 points 18 hours ago (12 children)

LibreOffice is an awesome piece of kit! On setup, they let you select the "tabbed" UI if you prefer something closer to MS office.

Collabora Office is another one that seems neat, have not used it before though. OnlyOffice has weird Russian ties and GPL incompatible licensing shenanigans, I would avoid them for the most part. WPS Office has the best compatibility with MS Office files on Linux I think, but it's closed-source so not great either. There's always running a VM / dual booting if you must use MS Office.

Honestly, MS office files have worked fine on LibreOffice, the only big issue I've found is that translucent images are a little broken when going from Impress to PowerPoint (all images share the same opacity for some reason?)

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  • [–] 26 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

    In my experience, MS Office files tend to have fewer compatibility problems on LibreOffice than on MS Office after the next update.

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  • [–] 13 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

    It's never that MS Office files don't work on LibreOffice (formatting is a little different but almost never broken), it's always files exported from LibreOffice that MS Office misreads (because Microsoft can't be bothered to follow standards are anti-competitive)

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  • [–] 8 points 10 hours ago (1 child)

    Can't be bothered makes them sound lazy. It's a deliberate method of squashing all competitors. If you can't send a document to someone else who usrs MS Office and have it appear the same, then you're going to need to use MS Office. Libre has been calling them out on this for years.

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  • [–] 13 points 17 hours ago (1 child)

    The three you mentioned in the second paragraph are slop fests now.

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  • [–] 6 points 14 hours ago

    I haven't used any of them in ages, I know Collabora is focused on their online suite. Looking at OnlyOffice's website, they are positioning themselves as an "AI-first" office suite (the LLM tools have been changed to be optional and installed separately since a recent update, but still a bad look)

    And WPS Office was always owned by a Chinese company and continues to be closed-source, so no changes there. Again, the same sort of "AI-first" stuff on their homepage, yikes

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  • [–] 8 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

    On setup, they let you select the "tabbed" UI

    On setup it asks you to select one of four UIs, some of them are missing features. Once I spent almost an hour trying to solve a problem, but it turned out it was unsolvable in my UI. I changed the UI and found a solution in a moment.

    Don't get me wrong, I love the fact that OpenOffice exists, but their UI needs a lot of work

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  • [–] 9 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

    LibreOffice, not OpenOffice. I believe LibreOffice was forked from OpenOffice, and the latter hasn't had any updates in ages.

    I imagine that the UI you selected was the one of the "compact" or "single toolbar" options? It is a little confusing that some of the one functions disappear with those, it would be helpful if it was listed which ones were missing

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  • [–] 1 point 8 hours ago (1 child)

    I had thought that OpenOffice was the one that "looked modern and familiar" while libreoffice is the good one but lools older.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 hours ago

    You're confusing OpenOffice (dead project pretty much, hasn't seen updates in ages) with OnlyOffice (the Russian one with the licensing shenanigans and "AI first" stuff, UI is M365-like and very similar to the LibreOffice "Tabbed" UI)

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