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Everyone needs to stop competing with Office and just build a better office. The truth is, no one needs to be compatible these days. Everyone is either: - us
by dismalaf 1y ago
Everyone needs to stop competing with Office and just build a better office.
The truth is, no one needs to be compatible these days. Everyone is either:
- using the same software company-wide, whether it's LO, Google Docs or MS Office
- exporting to PDF when sharing docs with someone outside the organization
The real thing that LO is missing is server side hosting and easy syncing... Until they get that, it's just going to be something used by individuals and small orgs.
I still remember, at my university we had LO installed on lab computers, MS Office was a "requirement" for students to purchase, but most profs simply insisted we simply hand in assignments as Google Docs links because there was incompatibilities between .doc, .docx, the formats made by LO, etc... Google Docs were the only ones that could be shared and be 100% identical on every computer with the link.
If LO had a web hosted solution and provided easy to install server code for organizations, they'd dominate. But they don't...
- wizzwizz4 1y agoLibreOffice has both of those, provided by Collabora (the main corporate developer of LibreOffice).
- Andrew_nenakhov 1y agoI tried really hard to use Collabora 'web' solution. It is unusable. For those who don't know: it renders the whole LibreOffice interface on server and passes it to you. Lots of issues with hotkeys on non-standard layouts (I use Dvorak), with language switching, with mouse behavior, with clipboard, ugh. Of course it is hungry for resources. No. This isn't the way.
- wizzwizz4 1y agoAre you sure that's not just a VNC-based demo of the desktop version of Collabora Office? I wouldn't be too surprised if their web version was like that (given how long ago the first version came out), except Nextcloud uses a Collabora-based system for its online editing, and I doubt they'd go with something like that. There are online ODT editors (e.g. https://webodf.org/demo/ci/wodotexteditor-0.5.9/localeditor.html https://webodf.org/demo/ci/wodotexteditor-0.5.9/localeditor....), so even if Collabora's is bad, it wouldn't be too hard to make a better one.
- dismalaf 1y agoHmmm... They probably need to advertise that more, or connect the two. Had no idea they were related. Also the Collabora website is cancer, it's not easy at all trying it...