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[–] 24 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

But what are they using to replace Copilot/Gemini?

If the answer is “Nothing…”

… they may end up becoming really popular really quickly.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    You had me at "nothing".

    I do use the add-on Grammarly in Word. I would very much like to still have that.

    I wonder if they will add support for it.

    That's the only thing really keeping me using word. Plus right now I'm still a student and the university pays for my subscription.

    Once I graduate I won't be paying their ridiculous subscription.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

    I'm glad they are shipping it after all the drama.

    For the rest of us if you don't mind closed source softmaker office is from Germany and its not failed on any word document I've thrown at it.

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  • [–] 19 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    LibreOffice: "Am I a joke to you? Actually, don't answer that."

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Onlyoffice and libreoffice's interfaces are night and day. Libreoffice gives more control though.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

    They look and feel fairly comparable, IMO.

    Onlyoffice

    Libreoffice

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I promise you they do not feel the same.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

    I imagine Onlyoffice's settings menu is better (I'm not a fan of Libreoffice's settings), but for average use, what areas does Onlyoffice do better UX-wise? I believe Onlyoffice is better at handling microsoft office documents, but hopefully that will become less relevant with this movement to get away from US products.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I said this in another thread - but not feel like a java app with 40 years of baggage, for one.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago*

    As someone who only used Onlyoffice briefly, to me they both seemed to do the same tasks about as well as each other. I didn't notice Libreoffice's age except in the settings menu. For actually just doing normal stuff, like word processing, it felt comparable, besides some minor stylistic UI polish in Onlyoffice.

    Are there any specific pain points in Libreoffice that you can recall that Onlyoffice does significantly better in?

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Nnnothing?

    It's not connected to LibreOffice in any way, though, aside from the first five letters of their names.

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    [–] 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    This might be ignorant and asshole-ish on my part, but couldn't they just use Libreoffice?

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    This seems like a really good thing for the world.

    OnlyOffice is actually really good. And all of the worst things about it are the things they say they are fixing.

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    [–] 21 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    So, plenty good to skip MS/Goog, but why what seems like reinventing a lot of work when there are things like LibreOffice/OnlyOffice already out there? Didn't see anything in the article which makes it seem like just a branding effort.

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  • [–] 28 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    It’s indeed an OnlyOffice fork. I guess they want to play safe, considering that OO is Russian based.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    I didn’t realise OnlyOffice was open source. Any guesses why they forked that instead of LO?

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  • [–] 18 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    OO is significantly closer to MS office UI wise. As to why they forked it, OO was basically only open source on paper and didn't really accept external contributions. They tried to shut down this fork with some dubious legal claims that are blatantly in conflict with at least the spirit of the open source license as icing on the cake.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    It's not just UI wise.

    They explain it on their website : their internal logic for a document is based on OOXML logic, while LO is rather based on a ODT-based logic. So compatibility with Office is more straightforward in OO (though we know Microsoft is not quite exactly following the OOXML norm, so still not perfect...)

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    The intent is to replace MS Office in government use, so it's necessary for the EU to maintain its own codebase. The whole point is reducing government dependence on foreign-controlled software. The only way to accomplish that is to create your own self-controlled fork.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    Especially considering the rather... drastic measures they original owners took. Starting a lawsuit when someone tries to fork your open source software is an excellent sign that someone badly needs to create a fork of your "open source" software

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Kinda dumb why can't they just improve existing ones like libreoffice for example.

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  • [–] -2 points 5 months ago

    The program itself is a web‑based, open‑source editor for documents, spreadsheets,

    They want me to use a government controlled web based office suite?

    They'll have to pry my LibreOffice from my cold dead hands!

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