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While LibreOffice works like a charm on Linux, it's way behind in Windows and macOS. Microsoft's tools use the screen space much more efficiently under both. W
by bayindirh 3y ago
While LibreOffice works like a charm on Linux, it's way behind in Windows and macOS. Microsoft's tools use the screen space much more efficiently under both.
While I understand that looks isn't everything (I use Eclipse with great joy), it's to the point that hinders productivity in these tools.
- notpushkin 3y agoMy current favourite is OnlyOffice – pretty concise interface and good compatibility. Unfortunately, there's no build for Linux on Arm yet, so I'm stuck with LibreOffice (not too bad either).
- nerdponx 3y agoIsn't OnlyOffice browser-based? Or is that something else?
- notpushkin 3y agoIt is, but they also package it as a desktop app using CEF. (It is one of maybe two Chromium-based desktop apps that I like, the other one being VSCodium.)
- akvadrako 3y agoIt's a shady closed source product though. I've also encountered plenty of bugs so moved back to Libreoffice.
- notpushkin 3y agoTheir browser-based self-hosted solution has optional closed-source components, but the desktop app is pretty much open source: https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/DesktopEditors https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/DesktopEditors The development model is a bit sketchy (e. g. they have a separate private issue tracker and sometimes ignore tickets in their open source repos), but the sources are there.