European tech firms will ship the first stable release of Euro-Office next month, giving governments and businesses worldwide a ready-to-run, sovereign alternative to Microsoft Office and Google Docs.
  • ripcord@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 days ago

    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.

  • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
    25·
    2 days ago

    But what are they using to replace Copilot/Gemini?

    If the answer is “Nothing…”

    … they may end up becoming really popular really quickly.

    • daannii@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      2 days ago

      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.

    • einlander@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 days ago

      Onlyoffice and libreoffice’s interfaces are night and day. Libreoffice gives more control though.

          • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            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.

            • ripcord@lemmy.world
              4·
              2 days ago

              I said this in another thread - but not feel like a java app with 40 years of baggage, for one.

              • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netEnglish
                2·
                2 days ago

                As someone who only used Onlyoffice briefly, to me they both seemed to do the same tasks about as well as each other. I didn’t notice Libreoffice’s age except in the settings menu. For actually just doing normal stuff, like word processing, it felt comparable, besides some minor stylistic UI polish in Onlyoffice.

                Are there any specific pain points in Libreoffice that you can recall that Onlyoffice does significantly better in?

  • Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world
    12·
    2 days ago

    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.

    • BingBong@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      2 days ago

      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.