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  • IrdialEnglish
    17•9 months ago

    Unfortunately, I don’t think either is particularly great. LibreOffice looks horrendous, performs at or below average, and does not have fabulous compatibility with Microsoft Office formats. On the other hand, ONLYOFFICE has better compatibility but feels cheap and pushes web services.

    If this is for personal use, I would go with LibreOffice. If you need to share documents with others using a common format, go with ONLYOFFICE.

    • @BCsven@lemmy.ca
      7•9 months ago

      I’m not sure if this is accurate OpenOffice appears to be abandonware with development stopped in 2011 while LibreOffice is the fork and still being developed.

      edit…ah Oracle OpenOffice vs Apache OpenOffice

    • T (they/she)
      5•9 months ago

      LibreOffice literally looks exactly like MS Office in my computer, what are you talking about? It does take a little bit of configuration, but nothing you can’t find with a quick search

      • @ag_roberston_author@beehaw.orgEnglish
        4•9 months ago

        They are probably using the default installed theme, which doesn’t have scalable icons so everything is horribly pixelated. Not sure why it’s still the default, but as you said it’s pretty easy to change.

      • @Achyu
        1•9 months ago

        Could you share how you did that?

        I’m recommending Libreoffice to others n the UI difference seems to be the main thing that they notice.

      • IrdialEnglish
        1•9 months ago

        Yeah, I will admit that it looks much better on Linux than macOS. My other qualm is that it eats up my laptop battery, while Pages and Word use considerably less power

    • @Pantherina@feddit.de
      2•9 months ago

      Dont agree on looks etc, but yes Onlyoffice feels like that and I would prefer Libreoffice+Web integration too.

  • ⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔
    15•9 months ago

    I’ve been using LibreOffice for a number of years without issue. Literally takes care of all my word processing and spreadsheet needs. I don’t miss MS Office at all, which I use daily at work.

      • @DdCno1@beehaw.org
        15•9 months ago

        Because most employees can’t just install random software on their machines and because compatibility between Libre Office and Microsoft Office is nowhere near perfect. You don’t want to send your boss a file that ends up looking mangled on their screen.

      • ⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔
        12•9 months ago

        Company computing assets are managed. One normally doesn’t get to override IT policy without business justification.

          • ElectricMachmanEnglish
            9•9 months ago

            It is when your business relies on Microsoft services which are inherently incompatible with LO

              • ElectricMachmanEnglish
                7•9 months ago

                What happens when you need to collaborate with other businesses who use O365? The business would also have to spend time updating any legacy documents, templates, spreadsheets and so on. Then you have the IT teams, who will need extensive training so that they can field the inevitable flurry of support tickets and calls. And that’s not getting into the support side of things - who do I go to if something breaks in LibreOffice?

                I am an advocate for OSS, but there is a bigger picture here, and unfortunately it’s not always as simple as just switching over. I wish it was, believe me!

          • The CuuuuubeEnglish
            3•9 months ago

            Not when you’re already on an annual contract with Microsoft and the majority of your company’s employees are nontechnical

            • @delirious_owl@discuss.online
              1•9 months ago

              Yes. We’re talking about Libre Office here. Its a very mature and accessible app. Not something that requires technical knowledge.

              And, yes, if you’re on an annual contract then its even easier to convince management to cancel it for all users by default (with some exceptions as needed). Lots of money to be saved.

  • flatbieldEnglish
    12•9 months ago

    LibreOffice unless MS Office comparability is the most important thing. Then maybe try ONLYOFFICE.

  • Lettuce eat lettuce
    11•9 months ago

    Both are good, but different focuses. OnlyOffice has fewer features, but extremely good MS Office cross-compatibility.

    Libre Office has more features, but can run into compatibility issues when going back and forth between MS Office.

    That being said, for the average user’s needs, both are perfectly fine.

    OnlyOffice is also able to be used in a cloud framework similar to Google docs, but to my knowledge Libre Office cannot do that.

    • @maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zoneEnglish
      8•9 months ago

      I think Collabora Online uses or is built on LibreOffice. It’s a subscription service but you can host it yourself for free (I think for personal use). I’ve not tried either. I’m pretty sure the Collabora team are big code contributors to LibreOffice. If I got anything wrong I hope someone will correct me.

  • @sic_semper_tyrannis@feddit.chEnglish
    10•9 months ago

    I use OnlyOffice and enjoy it. I do notice some fancy features missing but as I’m not a power user it doesn’t bother me. I’ve opened OnlyOffice docx files in MS Office and vice versa many times with no issues ever. I’ve also installed MS fonts on my Linux distro and they work in OnlyOffice. I don’t notice it pushing online features like somebody else said

  • @supermair@lemmy.caEnglish
    5•9 months ago

    Try both out as flatpaks if you’re on Linux and keep the one you like as I did :). I think both flatpaks come with the full suite.

    I ended up sticking with OnlyOffice and feel it will probably work better for most people doing things like writing documents and spreadsheets with various formatting, tables, charts, formulas and equations.

    I am mainly a Google docs user (and in the past MS office) as most people are and the OnlyOffice UI and workflow is much more comfortable if you’re coming from these products. Things work and look the way you would expect. LibreOffice UI feels very clunky and dated (even after trying different layouts). For example, charts look really bad by default in LibreOffice. OnlyOffice seems to work pretty much just as well as gDocs/MS office so far in my limited experience for most scenarios.

    As part of my effort to reduce reliance on gDocs I am planning on setting up a self hosted Nextcloud office instance and it is based on OnlyOffice so it is more motivation for me to stick with it!

  • @t0mri@lemmy.mlOP
    5•9 months ago

    Is it possible to download just the word processor (libreoffice’s) and nothing else?

  • @MrSoup@lemmy.zip
    5•9 months ago

    LibreOffice should receive more updates than OnlyOffice OpenOffice.
    I switched my uncle from OnlyOffice OpenOffice to LibreOffice (for work) and he never complained.

    Edit: I’ve confused OnlyOffice with OpenOffice.

    Anyway, I have both LibreOffice and OnlyOffice. I always use LibreOffice but for one file (yes it is an excel spreadsheet) I need to use OnlyOffice 'cause Libre can’t open it.

    • ptman
      4•9 months ago

      You’re sure you’re talking about OnlyOffice, and not OpenOffice. OpenOffice and LibreOffice are related. OnlyOffice is not.

  • @Kory@lemmy.ml
    3•9 months ago

    I had issues with Onlyoffice taking ages to load documents with lots of pages while Libreoffice did it instantly as expected. So back to Libreoffice for me.

  • anders
    2•9 months ago

    @t0mri I have both. and i use both in different situations. depends on the specific document.