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For non tech savvy people at my workplace we go for OnlyOffice because it looks more familiar when coming from Microsoft Office. However, sooner or later they t
by RamRodification 2y ago
For non tech savvy people at my workplace we go for OnlyOffice because it looks more familiar when coming from Microsoft Office. However, sooner or later they try to open a very big spreadsheet and it just chokes completely. When that happens we switch them over to LibreOffice which usually handles it without issue.
- bananaflag 2y agoYeah, it looks more like post-2007 Office with the Ribbon; LibreOffice, like its predecessors, looks more like classical Office 95/97.
- ge96 2y agoThat reminds me of switching to sublime's parser wrt a huge MySQL file, that was a while back though 2019 I think
- shiandow 2y agoDepends when you got used to office probably. To me Libreoffice looks more like office than office does nowadays.
- queuebert 2y agoTo me, Abiword was the best clone of the best version of Word. To bad it is more or less abandonware.
- maxloh 2y agoOnlyOffice has better compatibility with Microsoft Office formats in most cases. LibreOffice has been developed with Open Document Format as its first-class citizen. In my experience, it can't render the layout correctly for most docx forms created with tables. For example, this is a form I filled a few months ago for my college's paperwork: https://imgur.com/tv5GDZa https://imgur.com/tv5GDZa
- RamRodification 2y agoI'm sure you're right. Has not been an issue for us at all though. Probably because we are not really dealing with documents very much.