"European sovereignty!!!" Hosts it on Github.
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I had no idea there was so much drama behind MS Office alternatives. I moved to Libre some time ago and although it is often buggy and frustrating, I know it well enough to make it do the job. It's also had a ribbon UI for some time, so I'm not sure what the press release is talking about there.
What's wrong with LibreOffice?
Many complain about bad UX, if nextcloud is going through this amount of effort to make a fork, then those people have a point
Just to clarify, NextCloud aren't forking LibreOffice, they're forking OnlyOffice. They're two very different projects (OnlyOffice is a web based office suite, whereas LibreOffice is primarily desktop based, although there is work on making a web version)
Also read about much old cruft and tech debt.
Aka it's easier to steer a new sjip than repair and manage an old one.
I dont understand why collabora and libreoffice don't work together. Why compete? And what is this onlyoffice fork? Why not work with libreoffice instead? There could be a massive effort going into libreoffice but somehow everybody's going their own way. It makes it so easy for Microslop
The one explanation I've heard is that the EU has fallen for the "if code is older than three months old and not in Rust it's dead" meme, something something about codebases presumably suffering from code rot.
Do I believe it? Not a chance. EU legislators and stuff barely understand anything about code.
OnlyOffice has so many missing features but it is the one that is closest to actual Microsoft office for me and my wife. Libre isn’t even close. If next cloud can fix all the missing features then they have my support.
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