Comment on LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs | The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded by nearly 1 million users a week

vane@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Lfrith@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Syncthing has been so helpful in making me move away from cloud based options. And to think only reason I found out about it and gave it a shot was because I was trying to figure out how to easily sync my non Steam game save files between my Desktop and my Steam Deck. It’s been invaluable since then.

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  • baltakatei@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Donate if you regularly use Syncthing. Help close the causal loop.

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    • thesystemisdown@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      LibreOffice too for that matter. Kick 'em a few bucks if you can spare it.

      www.libreoffice.org/donate/

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      • SexDwarf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Thanks for the reminder! Donated 5 euros (I’m unemployed so can’t spare more right now)

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    • Lightor@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You gotta give.

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      • swab148@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You hit me in the cup

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  • Buelldozer@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Syncthing

    That is a very cool project that I’d never heard of. Thanks for sharing!

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    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Welcome to the biggest rabbit hole of your life. Syncthing itself isn’t huge, but the capacity to divest from the big cloud providers is.

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  • azalty@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    How does that differ from something like Nextcloud?

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    • cows_are_underrated@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Nextcloud is, as the name says, a dedicated server used as a cloud. Syncthing only syncronises fders between devices. You dont need a dedicated server for this that stores all the data.

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      • azalty@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Oh nice! I felt like website did a bad job at explaining what it is and how it works

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• ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  OnlyOffice is also good - my preferred for the basic Word/Excel type stuff I do.

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  • OscarRobin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah I love LibreOffice’s customisability including sidebar etc, but OnlyOffice just performs a lot better and handles the most common formats better for me

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    • JayGray91@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Heck yeah, OnlyOffice gang

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  • tantalizer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah! To me LibreOffice just looks dated and, to be honest, shit. OnlyOffice has a much cleaner interface.

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    • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It also isn’t still carrying around 30 years of Java baggage from when it was Sun StarOffice, and everything inbetween.

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• Condiment2085@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Woowoo! Cloud has its place and I love it but it’s not for literally everything

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• WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Never even qualified for SOLDIER.

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And has to cope by pretending he’s literally this other dude

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• bufalo1973@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not so far. LibreOffice has a network version.

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