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Calligra has much lower user satisfaction ratings than LibreOffice. Does Calligra offer any features compelling enough to use it vs. one of the other FOSS offi

Calligra has much lower user satisfaction ratings than LibreOffice. Does Calligra offer any features compelling enough to use it vs. one of the other FOSS office suites? https://comparisons.financesonline.com/libreoffice-vs-calligra-suite https://comparisons.financesonline.com/libreoffice-vs-callig...

MarcellusDrum 6y ago
I personally prefer it because it is nicer looking, and much simpler to use. I don't require much advanced features in word or spreadsheet editors, which is why I use Calligra. When I do require something more advanced, LibreOffice is my go to office suite.
approxim8ion 6y ago
I love that it loads up really fast, compared to LibreOffice which is slow as molasses to start up. LO has way more features though, it's not even a fair comparison. And something that ticks me off about Calligra and OnlyOffice is that they can't do partial word counts, as in the word count of the highlighted portion of the document only. Small things like these sting more than more niche features that you might not miss. Still, it's nice looking and fast and adequate for a lot of basic documents.
- kwanbix 6y ago
  3 seconds takes LibreOffice Write to load on my "old" ThinkPad P50.
  - approxim8ion 6y ago
    First load or was it already loaded in your session? Took 21 seconds on my 6 year old laptop with an i3 and 8GB of RAM. No SSD though, just a 5400rpm HDD. The second load was about 4 seconds though.
  - bayindirh 6y ago
    Even with a good SSD and processor, LibreOffice takes a lot of time for the first fire. Then, as long as it's in the memory, you can fire it relatively instantly but, it's not "3 seconds flat".
    - eptcyka 6y ago
      YMMV,for me it starts up instantly.
    - bscphil 6y ago
      Yeah, I have it on an SSD and it took six seconds to load. (And I have run it before since the last reboot, but it was closed and probably purged from memory since then.) Kinda reminds me, back in the day Microsoft would add a startup service that would preload Internet Explorer and Word (I think those two) into memory, because they started so slowly by default. Trying to get a leg up on the competition, I suppose, since obviously Firefox or what have you wasn't pulling similar tricks. I'd disable stuff like that in msconfig to get a faster boot time, but was always shocked by how slow Word would load after that.
      - agret 6y ago
        LibreOffice also has a tray icon pre-loader you can enable on slower machines.
        bscphil 6y ago
        Interesting, I had no idea! Going to look into this. (I don't need it, but from a technical standpoint it should be pretty interesting.)
bscphil 6y ago
How does "financesonline" measure user satisfaction? I've never even heard of it.
- SahAssar 6y ago
  Seems like they scrape social media, they say "We use our behavior-based Customer Satisfaction Algorithm™ to gather customer reviews, comments and opinions across a wide range of social media sites to help you make an informed buying decision." if you click the question mark next to the number here: https://reviews.financesonline.com/p/libreoffice/ https://reviews.financesonline.com/p/libreoffice/ I would not bet on that number being at all reliable based on their vague description.
  - bscphil 6y ago
    That's somehow even worse than what I would naively have guessed.
rpdillon 6y ago
One feature that I noticed reading the product page was that it works on mobile.
zamalek 6y ago
The UX looks way ahead of LibreOffice. It's clean and looks like it's out of the way. I just can't handle using patchwork UIs like LibreOffice (I have basically given up with office suites on Linux and use Google Docs) - as it turns out, interacting with pleasing things improves the enjoyment of using those things.
- lights0123 6y ago
  The left menu of Kexi (https://calligra.org/assets/img/kexi-summary.png https://calligra.org/assets/img/kexi-summary.png) is very visually appealing to me and I wish more Linux software used the mix of dark and light for side menus.

MarcellusDrum 6y ago

I personally prefer it because it is nicer looking, and much simpler to use. I don't require much advanced features in word or spreadsheet editors, which is why I use Calligra. When I do require something more advanced, LibreOffice is my go to office suite.

approxim8ion 6y ago

I love that it loads up really fast, compared to LibreOffice which is slow as molasses to start up. LO has way more features though, it's not even a fair comparison. And something that ticks me off about Calligra and OnlyOffice is that they can't do partial word counts, as in the word count of the highlighted portion of the document only. Small things like these sting more than more niche features that you might not miss. Still, it's nice looking and fast and adequate for a lot of basic documents.

kwanbix 6y ago
3 seconds takes LibreOffice Write to load on my "old" ThinkPad P50.
- approxim8ion 6y ago
  First load or was it already loaded in your session? Took 21 seconds on my 6 year old laptop with an i3 and 8GB of RAM. No SSD though, just a 5400rpm HDD. The second load was about 4 seconds though.
- bayindirh 6y ago
  Even with a good SSD and processor, LibreOffice takes a lot of time for the first fire. Then, as long as it's in the memory, you can fire it relatively instantly but, it's not "3 seconds flat".
  - eptcyka 6y ago
    YMMV,for me it starts up instantly.
  - bscphil 6y ago
    Yeah, I have it on an SSD and it took six seconds to load. (And I have run it before since the last reboot, but it was closed and probably purged from memory since then.) Kinda reminds me, back in the day Microsoft would add a startup service that would preload Internet Explorer and Word (I think those two) into memory, because they started so slowly by default. Trying to get a leg up on the competition, I suppose, since obviously Firefox or what have you wasn't pulling similar tricks. I'd disable stuff like that in msconfig to get a faster boot time, but was always shocked by how slow Word would load after that.
    - agret 6y ago
      LibreOffice also has a tray icon pre-loader you can enable on slower machines.
      - bscphil 6y ago
        Interesting, I had no idea! Going to look into this. (I don't need it, but from a technical standpoint it should be pretty interesting.)

bscphil 6y ago

How does "financesonline" measure user satisfaction? I've never even heard of it.

SahAssar 6y ago
Seems like they scrape social media, they say "We use our behavior-based Customer Satisfaction Algorithm™ to gather customer reviews, comments and opinions across a wide range of social media sites to help you make an informed buying decision." if you click the question mark next to the number here: https://reviews.financesonline.com/p/libreoffice/ https://reviews.financesonline.com/p/libreoffice/ I would not bet on that number being at all reliable based on their vague description.
- bscphil 6y ago
  That's somehow even worse than what I would naively have guessed.

rpdillon 6y ago

One feature that I noticed reading the product page was that it works on mobile.

zamalek 6y ago

The UX looks way ahead of LibreOffice. It's clean and looks like it's out of the way. I just can't handle using patchwork UIs like LibreOffice (I have basically given up with office suites on Linux and use Google Docs) - as it turns out, interacting with pleasing things improves the enjoyment of using those things.

lights0123 6y ago
The left menu of Kexi (https://calligra.org/assets/img/kexi-summary.png https://calligra.org/assets/img/kexi-summary.png) is very visually appealing to me and I wish more Linux software used the mix of dark and light for side menus.