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► Chapters:

00:00 - Microsoft Office on Linux
00:30 - The Open Source Standard: LibreOffice
03:23 - OnlyOffice, the better alternative?
05:01 - WPS Office, the best clone?
05:50 - Microsoft 365
06:30 - Google Workspace
06:44 - Are these solutions proper substitutes?
07:40 - Conclusion

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[DlxyRekt]

It's funny everyone watching this already knows the alternatives but continues watching anyways

[vaisakhkm]

i would say, the issue with libreoffice interface is just theming issue, in my opinion they should provide a really good looking mordern default theme, and add a option for user to prefer desktop theme, like how browsers does it..

[GugureSux]

ONLY-office really is the MS Office in everything but the name.
It's only real "downside" I've found is that it cannot animate GIF files in slide shows, something both MS and LibreOffice have been capable of for a long time now.

[NADEEMKHAN-sjhn]

Onlyoffice is my favourite and i like the tab feature that opens multiple files

[gaudaddy]

Office 2013 works perfectly fine using wine on linux btw. I feel like that's a pretty good option that a lot of people seem to completely skip when talking about office suites on linux

[radioxerox]

Funny story about WPS being kind of suspicious.
At my last work, some guy sent his resume as a WPS shareable link instead of attaching the file to his email. When the HR person clicked the link, it downloaded the installer for WPS office and automatically changed all the default apps from MS to WPS. She was very confused why "word changed how it looks" and also didn't realise it was caused by the email so didn't explain this to IT for a while. Now WPS is banned there ahah

[NADEEMKHAN-sjhn]

Softmaker FreeOffice is also a office suite available for linux, which is also look similar to Microsoft just like WPS

Freeoffice is a close source software from Germany

[zerkovic]

I use Softmaker's Textmaker, Planmaker. Love It.

[MinaSchloch]

You know Libreoffice supports Icon themes right?

I switched away from Breeze to something more colorful, which I find more usable.

You can also remove buttons or add custom buttons.

[hermespymander]

Onlyoffice is nice when you are dealing with multiple documents (tabs)

[v-PairOfNines]

Unfortunately, none of the spreadsheets alternatives have a proper substitute for the Power Query within Excel. It is one of the most powerful features it has for manipulating data and almost no MS Office alternatives videos mention this

[wmaster]

This is where Linux and other operating systems fail for me. Open office and other products are “decent, ” but nothing compares truly to MS Excel.

[NikiDaDude]

I use MS Office at work and OnlyOffice at home when I'm on Linux. Compatibility is excellent, but I don't like some choices, for example Writer only shows you the word count of the whole document but not for the selected text like in Word.

[gsahil]

I use libre office as its pre installed . I use googles workspace too and only office is my go to due to its UI .

[djtomoy]

Just create you documents in the command line like a real man

[TheMetaldudeX]

A good open source PDF editor is on my foss wish list. The ones that exist don’t have no where’s near the functionality.

[jcfawerd]

WPS office was discovered to lock users‘ files once specific words are discovered and its latest user agreements stated that it would upload users’ documents for AI training, I would be highly against it

[nico]

Office 365 works perfectly fine for me, but only with Crossover

[thieftheodore]

In my experience, softmaker free office have the best compatibility with ms office files

[marksulloway]

How about Softmaker Office - paid, or its free version Freeoffice? German software. Too bad that RagTime is only available for Mac & Windows as its frame oriented page layout is something special.