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2021 is my personal year of the Linux desktop. I haven’t found an office suite I particularly like. For documents, I’d love something as lightweight and focused
by christophilus 6y ago
2021 is my personal year of the Linux desktop. I haven’t found an office suite I particularly like. For documents, I’d love something as lightweight and focused as IA Writer. Right now, I’ve settled on VS Code + markdown combined with the markdown PDF plugin. It’s not bad, actually. And Zen mode gets me most of the way to what I liked about IA Writer.
- patrickmd 6y agoYou may want to give FreeOffice a try. While not FOSS, it is free as in beer. The application has 27 years of development behind it. It is not based on LibreOffice. The application boasts full compatibility with all of the Microsoft formats. https://www.freeoffice.com/ https://www.freeoffice.com/
- acidburnNSA 6y agoWelcome aboard! Add pandoc to the markdown setup and you gain (at least basic) interoperability with other common office formats as well. [1] https://pandoc.org https://pandoc.org
- bayindirh 6y ago> For documents, I’d love something as lightweight and focused as IA Writer. I also use IA Writer on my Mac. The best replacement for it on Linux Desktop is Ghost Writer [0]. It should be available in your favorite package manager already. It supports Pandoc and can export in a ton of formats. [0]: https://wereturtle.github.io/ghostwriter/ https://wereturtle.github.io/ghostwriter/
- christophilus 6y agoWow. This looks like just the thing. Thanks!
- chaorace 6y agoMuch like nuclear fusion, the year of the Linux desktop is just on the horizon. Jokes aside, desktop apps on Linux are more common than ever, thanks to Electron. We all bemoan the continued gobbling of good, sensible software by the bloated web, but I'm forced to admit that it's actually kind of nice to have some level of support for commercial desktop applications, even if it's not quite first-class. By contrast, the state of the Linux desktop is a little less sunny. No matter what your opinion on Wayland actually is, you certainly have to admit that the transition is not going very well.
- Halian 6y agoIt's not FOSS, merely freeware, but, having not myself found a good alternative to Microsoft Office, I've taken a liking to SoftMaker FreeOffice.