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Anyone have a good comparison between this and LibreOffice?

by dcsommer 3y ago

euniceee3 3y ago
Only Office can run in a cloud-based capacity. Think Office 365 that is able to be self-hosted.
- coder543 3y ago
  https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/LibreOffice_Online https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/LibreOffice_... There have been various efforts to bring LibreOffice to the web, but I haven’t tested anything in a long time, so I can’t say if it works well.
  - the_third_wave 3y ago
    They work quite well, I've been using it (Collabora + "richdocuments" in Nextcloud) for a number of years now.
  - ShadowBanThis01 3y ago
    Why would you want to?
    - circuit10 3y ago
      One reason is that it’s more convenient to use on computers you don’t own and can’t install software on, and other is you can share things with people without them needing to install it to view or edit your documents
      - ShadowBanThis01 3y ago
        OK, the first one I can understand. The second one... installing an open-source package that runs on almost everything doesn't seem like that big a deal. But those are reasonable answers. I would rather see engineering effort go into fixing bugs in the suite, but I realize that the people volunteering to "Web-enable" the software aren't necessarily the ones who'd be fixing unrelated bugs.
- RockRobotRock 3y ago
  You can also self-host Office: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/officeonlineserver/office-online-server https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/officeonlineserver/office-... The protocol that connects the office suite to the file sharing platform is called WOPI (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Application_Open_Platform_Interface https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Application_Open_Platform_...). OneDrive/Dropbox/Nextcloud all seem to support it. Seems like Collabora and OnlyOffice are the two big players right now.
nh2 3y ago
OnlyOffice seems to be the only FOSS office suite that handles Microsoft Office documents correctly. When I open my Word docs in LibreOffice, they still look significantly different than in Word after all these years. In OnlyOffice they look exactly like in Word. So it replaced Word-in-Wine for me.
- Scarbutt 3y ago
  The elephant in the room is excel not word IMO.
  - easygenes 3y ago
    So how does OnlyOffice's Excel replacement compare?
    - taskforcegemini 3y ago
      in my recent (less than a year ago) experiments both struggled with excel files in different ways (some content missing), so can't be trusted as a drop-in-replacement, at least not for already existing documents.
- KronisLV 3y ago
  > OnlyOffice seems to be the only FOSS office suite that handles Microsoft Office documents correctly. I remember also looking at WPS Office for this and it seemed mostly okay to me: https://www.wps.com/office/ https://www.wps.com/office/ (though no source code available, at least it doesn't seem so) Then again, LibreOffice feels like the most trustworthy option out there for me (and is the default in many Linux distros), so I ended up just using that, any drawbacks and all. Nowadays I use LibreOffice on all my computers and have basically gotten rid of MS Office altogether. If I ever need to send someone something that looks consistent across all devices, there's PDF/A. I've actually used PDFs for presentations as well with no issues, especially after the inconsistencies of LibreOffice Impress and PowerPoint made one of my past presentations look like an utter mess on someone else's computer (fonts/locations were all wrong).
- 3y ago

Anyone have a good comparison between this and LibreOffice?

euniceee3 3y ago

Only Office can run in a cloud-based capacity. Think Office 365 that is able to be self-hosted.

coder543 3y ago
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/LibreOffice_Online https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/LibreOffice_... There have been various efforts to bring LibreOffice to the web, but I haven’t tested anything in a long time, so I can’t say if it works well.
- the_third_wave 3y ago
  They work quite well, I've been using it (Collabora + "richdocuments" in Nextcloud) for a number of years now.
- ShadowBanThis01 3y ago
  Why would you want to?
  - circuit10 3y ago
    One reason is that it’s more convenient to use on computers you don’t own and can’t install software on, and other is you can share things with people without them needing to install it to view or edit your documents
    - ShadowBanThis01 3y ago
      OK, the first one I can understand. The second one... installing an open-source package that runs on almost everything doesn't seem like that big a deal. But those are reasonable answers. I would rather see engineering effort go into fixing bugs in the suite, but I realize that the people volunteering to "Web-enable" the software aren't necessarily the ones who'd be fixing unrelated bugs.
RockRobotRock 3y ago
You can also self-host Office: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/officeonlineserver/office-online-server https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/officeonlineserver/office-... The protocol that connects the office suite to the file sharing platform is called WOPI (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Application_Open_Platform_Interface https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Application_Open_Platform_...). OneDrive/Dropbox/Nextcloud all seem to support it. Seems like Collabora and OnlyOffice are the two big players right now.

nh2 3y ago

OnlyOffice seems to be the only FOSS office suite that handles Microsoft Office documents correctly. When I open my Word docs in LibreOffice, they still look significantly different than in Word after all these years. In OnlyOffice they look exactly like in Word. So it replaced Word-in-Wine for me.

Scarbutt 3y ago
The elephant in the room is excel not word IMO.
- easygenes 3y ago
  So how does OnlyOffice's Excel replacement compare?
  - taskforcegemini 3y ago
    in my recent (less than a year ago) experiments both struggled with excel files in different ways (some content missing), so can't be trusted as a drop-in-replacement, at least not for already existing documents.
KronisLV 3y ago
> OnlyOffice seems to be the only FOSS office suite that handles Microsoft Office documents correctly. I remember also looking at WPS Office for this and it seemed mostly okay to me: https://www.wps.com/office/ https://www.wps.com/office/ (though no source code available, at least it doesn't seem so) Then again, LibreOffice feels like the most trustworthy option out there for me (and is the default in many Linux distros), so I ended up just using that, any drawbacks and all. Nowadays I use LibreOffice on all my computers and have basically gotten rid of MS Office altogether. If I ever need to send someone something that looks consistent across all devices, there's PDF/A. I've actually used PDFs for presentations as well with no issues, especially after the inconsistencies of LibreOffice Impress and PowerPoint made one of my past presentations look like an utter mess on someone else's computer (fonts/locations were all wrong).
3y ago