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Originally posted by JeansenVaars View PostLibre is sooo behind office. Its sad but I wish Libre got the resources it requires to make it competitive. There's not a slight chance it can compete with ms word or power point, lack of features, templates and even this decade's appearance.
Its blocking my family to moving to Linux actually. They just need office and work with files other people send as docx , pptx etc
More importantly, you will never get away from Office until everyone you deal with abandons it. Its much like Gimp VS Photoshop where if you do graphic design for work, no one expects you to use anything other than Photoshop. Until that changes, you will not be using Libre. Your only alternative is to then move to Linux and either VM Windows for Office, use Office online, or see if it works with Wine. If you can't do any of those then you might as well forget Linux exists for that situation.
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Originally posted by Britoid View Post
None of those are open source, except OnlyOffice.
wps office and only office are available as flatpaks on flathub so at least can get somewhat/increasingly sandboxed in case you don't want to trust them with messing around your system (but AFAIK both don't have native Wayland support yet, which is needed for real sandboxing).
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Originally posted by Cerberus View Post
Wrong, it is dominating because LibreOffice breaks formatting of many Microsoft Office documents and makes it impossible to collaborate with individuals and companies who create documents in Microsoft Office.
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Originally posted by Prescience500 View PostMicrosoft Office is dominating because of Outlook and Activesync support. Until there's a good Outlook and/or Activesync killer that's free or cheap, then Microsoft Office will reign.
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Originally posted by treba View Post
You might want to give wps Office, only office or free office a try. Libreoffice is not the only one out there (although my personal preference, even though it doesn't look as shiny).
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Originally posted by JeansenVaars View PostLibre is sooo behind office. Its sad but I wish Libre got the resources it requires to make it competitive. There's not a slight chance it can compete with ms word or power point, lack of features, templates and even this decade's appearance.
Its blocking my family to moving to Linux actually. They just need office and work with files other people send as docx , pptx etcOriginally posted by cl333r View PostThe Linux community is drowning in self delusion and the answer to what you're saying will be as usual: you're wrong, it's all relative, it's a matter of taste, it's good enough etc etc. Microsoft Office is doing so well not because it's so good but because its competition is so bad.
For me, I'm the one making and sending out documents. Libre works just fine for me because because I export everything to PDF first. I can say "it's good enough" because, for my needs, it actually is. Damn near any office suite will suit my needs so that really isn't saying too much. If "export to/save as PDF" works with Adobe Reader, the office suite suits my needs.
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Originally posted by bug77 View PostI couldn't care less about version numbers. But then again, I don't care much about office suites, since Google Docs has been covering my needs for years.
This is literally what I was wondering about.
It's a GTK+ application, improvements will come from KDE's GTK+ integration.
But they could just threw VCL away and support every platform in one go by using Qt.
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Microsoft Office is dominating because of Outlook and Activesync support. Until there's a good Outlook and/or Activesync killer that's free or cheap, then Microsoft Office will reign.
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Originally posted by JeansenVaars View PostLibre is sooo behind office. Its sad but I wish Libre got the resources it requires to make it competitive. There's not a slight chance it can compete with ms word or power point, lack of features, templates and even this decade's appearance.
Its blocking my family to moving to Linux actually. They just need office and work with files other people send as docx , pptx etc
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