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I’d love to see pictures. I’d love to drop MS/Google docs for something I can control myself.
by clickety_clack 1y ago
I’d love to see pictures. I’d love to drop MS/Google docs for something I can control myself.
- juvoly 1y agoBut would you be willing to pay for it? Would your company/organization be willing to move?
- simooooo 1y agoAbsolutely not
- thisislife2 1y agoHave you tried LibreOffice ( https://www.libreoffice.org/ https://www.libreoffice.org/ ) or OnlyOffice ( https://www.onlyoffice.com/desktop https://www.onlyoffice.com/desktop )? Both are pretty decent, and free, and also have commercial versions.
- ffsm8 1y agoMS365/Google docs is something entirely different to the old desktop office suites It's a collaboration tool, with synced storage and file management etc The overlap of a Venn diagram between users of these software is not very large - though there is some (overlap).
- thisislife2 1y agoAnd both the products I mentioned also support online collaboration and storage. See LibreOffice Online ( https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-online/ https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-online/ ), OnlyOffice Workspace ( https://www.onlyoffice.com/workspace https://www.onlyoffice.com/workspace ) and OnlyOffice Enterprise ( https://www.onlyoffice.com/docs-enterprise https://www.onlyoffice.com/docs-enterprise ). I can't comment how feature compatible these are but alternatives do exist and that's good new for us. (Note that openDesk is based on a fork of LibreOffice Online, which is a commercial variant for those who don't want to bother implementing everything themselves).
- ffsm8 1y agoInteresting, it seems I haven't interacted with this software for too long - makes sense in hindsight that there had been enough time to implement such features over the years. Thanks for correcting me.
- mcswell 1y agoSuch a polite response! So seldom seen in comment forums. I congratulate you.
- clickety_clack 1y agoI’m looking for more of a sharing experience. If I’m doing something locally myself I tend to use Mac pages, numbers or keynote. They’re underrated I think as local apps go. Getting a whole company on Mac just to use them is a non-starter though.
- tgsovlerkhgsel 1y agoI've tried LibreOffice. The UX is so clunky that I ended up giving up and started doing presentations in Google Slides, even if I then end up exporting them as a PDF to actually present/share. Every time I try to use it, it feels like fighting my tool rather than my tool helping me. There is no one big bug; it's a million tiny things.
- Semaphor 1y agoRecent versions? Because we deployed Nextcloud, I have been using and comparing OnlyOffice and Collabora for a bit, LibreOffice has been getting quite some work for presentations over the last year. My boss has issues with presentation editing (which is probably why we’ll end up with OnlyOffice), but was impressed by the features for the actual presentation.
- tgsovlerkhgsel 1y agoWhatever Ubuntu ships. I try from time to time, and usually only last a few minutes.
- flexagoon 1y agoIt seems to be just a collection of various open source components in an enterprise package with a bunch of features and integrations for companies. If you just want someone for personal use, check out Cryptpad, which is what openDesk uses for it's office component.