I have heard they’re the main two choices for FOSS enthusiasts. What are their pros and cons?
I have used LibreOffice so far and I’m very impressed with the ui as it is much more visually appealing than IWork and Microsoft Office.
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In 2010, Oracle bought Sun Microsystems, which held the trademark for the OpenOffice.org project. The open-source community that developed OpenOffice.org was worried that Oracle would do bad things, so they set up a non-profit, The Document Foundation, and established the LibreOffice project. Most of the outside contributors moved over to contributing to LibreOffice instead.
A few years later, Oracle donated the OpenOffice trademark to the Apache Software Foundation, which is why Apache OpenOffice now theoretically exists. But yeah, it hasn’t seen a non-bug-fix release since 2014. You simply want to use LibreOffice at this point…
IIRC it wasn’t just worry that Oracle would do bad, it was Oracle’s slowness/reluctance at incorporating patches and fixes, and that they were making OpenOffice unnecessarily dependent on Oracle’s Java.
this is one of the few good .ml users ive seen.
I hear there’s some good .blahaj users out there somewhere too… 🤭
4 upvotes? how?
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Most of them are extremely toxic.
??? I’ve never heard of this.
I think, ey tried to hint you’re over-generalising and being biased. Your first comment probably was meant to be a compliment but ended up close to a discriminatory insult
would you be hostile to people pretending that your people’s ethnic cleansing didn’t happen? tankies are dumb, I don’t wanna get any more political.
They’re a rare breed.
the same way a healthily developing young person compares to their parent in the paliative care ward, whose religious relatives won’t agree to turn off the respirator because “look they still have a heartbeat”.
Dang the situation is sadder than I thought.
You might be mixing up OpenOffice and OnlyOffice
OpenOffice is dead
OnlyOffice & LibreOffice are the two FOSS programs that people recommend.
Personally I like OnlyOffice a bit better, but I keep them both installed and updated
OpenOffice is ancient and isn’t really being developed anymore. It’s in maintenance mode and hasn’t gotten a real update in over a decade from what I can tell. Libreoffice trumps it in every way.
That said, I prefer OnlyOffice these days. It’s a lot slower unfortunately (running on electron…) but it’s much closer to MS office and has better document compatibility.
Electron: 🤮
This.
Friends don’t let friends Electron.
Most users are stuck with crappy Electron apps because of the same forces that prevent users from switching to other platforms or services. […] They exist because software markets are anticompetitive.
LibreOffice is awesome. OnlyOffice is pretty good too, and it integrates well into Nextcloud.
