This seems like a really good thing for the world.
OnlyOffice is actually really good. And all of the worst things about it are the things they say they are fixing.
This might be ignorant and asshole-ish on my part, but couldn’t they just use Libreoffice?
think only office has a lot of collaborative functionality that libreoffice doesn’t.
I’m glad they are shipping it after all the drama.
For the rest of us if you don’t mind closed source softmaker office is from Germany and its not failed on any word document I’ve thrown at it.
I tried to like softmaker. However I use a Dvorak keyboard layout and they could not get keyboard shortcuts to work with non qwerty keyboards. Finally ended up abandoning them. On libreoffice now.
LibreOffice: “Am I a joke to you? Actually, don’t answer that.”
Onlyoffice and libreoffice’s interfaces are night and day. Libreoffice gives more control though.
I promise you they do not feel the same.
I imagine Onlyoffice’s settings menu is better (I’m not a fan of Libreoffice’s settings), but for average use, what areas does Onlyoffice do better UX-wise? I believe Onlyoffice is better at handling microsoft office documents, but hopefully that will become less relevant with this movement to get away from US products.
I said this in another thread - but not feel like a java app with 40 years of baggage, for one.
But what are they using to replace Copilot/Gemini?
If the answer is “Nothing…”
… they may end up becoming really popular really quickly.
You had me at “nothing”.
I do use the add-on Grammarly in Word. I would very much like to still have that.
I wonder if they will add support for it.
That’s the only thing really keeping me using word. Plus right now I’m still a student and the university pays for my subscription.
Once I graduate I won’t be paying their ridiculous subscription.
