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Frankly I am shocked that they went with LibreOffice over OnlyOffice. OnlyOffice supports online collaboration already, works online and offline, and has a muc
by tredre3 3y ago
Frankly I am shocked that they went with LibreOffice over OnlyOffice.
OnlyOffice supports online collaboration already, works online and offline, and has a much more familiar interface. Compatibility is also better with MS Office documents.
OnlyOffice is developed online-first but they provide an electron app that works fully offline on all OSes: https://www.onlyoffice.com/download-desktop.aspx?from=desktop https://www.onlyoffice.com/download-desktop.aspx?from=deskto...
Yep, an electron app is better than native LibreOffice. That's how low the bar is currently.
- different_base 3y agoUsing OnlyOffice promotes Microsoft Document format even further. Microsoft will again change their spec and OnlyOffice won't know how to render it correctly. For long term, it's better to choose LibreOffice which uses open standards and does not purposefully change specs to break others.
- extraduder_ire 3y agoDoes it not have support for odt? I haven't used it much, but I do generally prefer it to libreoffice if I need to create or edit a document nowadays.
- throwaway74354 3y agoIt doesn't have a file creation dialog (nor global setting for this behavior), hence "promotes". New files are docx/xlsx/pptx. You have to manually use a "Save as" dialog to choose a corresponding LibreOffice format.
- throwaway74354 3y agoOnlyOffice, being Russian and embedded into the same autarky processes there, wasn't an option to begin with.
- Shorel 3y agoThat means LibreOffice is not native but Java?