I've been testing it and it seems like a good solution for general productivity and a great option for people migrating from MS. It's open source and cross-platform, but I just don't see it in any conversations about office software.

For me, it's so far leagues beyond LibreOffice. I really need something that works on my phone and syncs across devices, and allows collaboration. OnlyOffice seems to fit the bill. It's also far more intuitive to my preferences.

I am sure that some people wouldn't like the fact that the interface runs as a webapp, or use of Java, but it's strange to me that it's not usually even in the conversation.

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[–] Redkey@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Where are these conversations happening? I could see a lot of enterprise-focused groups potentially getting behind OnlyOffice, but individual home users? Not so much.

EDIT: My mistake! I didn't realize that there are standalone versions of OnlyOffice in addition to the web app version.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 points 4 months ago

You're proving OP's point. Why not? It's great.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I guess by libre office you're not referring to Collabora?

Collabora is the online version of Libre, and absolutely integrates with mobile, nextcloud, web browsers, collaboration, etc.

I initially used OnlyOffice with my Nextcloud instance, but switched to Collabora with my own CODE server once I realized it was MUCH more thoroughly integrated into nextcloud.

[–] klangcola@reddthat.com 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

OnlyOffice is also available as a (offline) desktop office suite, so as a user it's more like LibreOffice than Collabora.

My wife prefers OnlyOffice over LibreOffice, as it's feels closer to MS Office. Also it's compatibility with MS Office formats is better than LibreOffice.

I still use LibreOffice for desktop, but I'm not a heavy user. Haven't tried out Collabora or hosted OnlyOffice for NextCloud yet.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 months ago

Both are perfectly serviceable, but for the self-hosted storage/office suite combo, Collabora simply fits into Nextcloud better. Which is likely why you don't see OnlyOffice discussed much.

Collabora is just more integrated. The NC and Collabora developers actually directly collaborate on integrating it into NC as the "official" office suite.

And AFAIK the backend of Collabora is simply LibreOffice, meaning the "desktop" version is: LibreOffice. The UI is the same, too, though they might've diverged since I last used LibreOffice on desktop.

Personally I'm not really concerned with formats, as long as I can finish documents as PDFs, and Collabora has brought a google-drive-like experience to my nextcloud instance that OnlyOffice didn't manage. Either way I was able to do a google takeout of my drive storage, and just plop that into my nextcloud. But with Collabora, actually interacting with the resulting files within the nextcloud UI has been nicer.

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 months ago (4 children)

It’s developed by a Russian owned company (Ascensio System SIA).

[–] Tundra@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

the app version also has facebook & google trackers embedded into it:

https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.onlyoffice.documents/latest/#trackers

[–] datendefekt@feddit.org 1 points 4 months ago

My hot take: of it's open source and they don't receive money from me, I don't really care.

[–] INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Comments like this are interesting because the upvote ratio tells me that 3/30 lemmy accounts are surely Russia controlled 🤘

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

If your expert analysis of voting ratios has led you to conclude that I’m Russian, you might want to go back on your methodology and rethink it. Check my post history and really give it a thought haha.

[–] iuvi@lemmy.ml -1 points 4 months ago

so what? europe stirp sanctions from russian oligarchs and also make money by taking gap in sanctions on oil, gas and mineral resources sucking them from russia sponsoring war