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This here.

I wish Only Office got as much fanfare as LibreOffice. The UI is much closer to Microsoft Office and it tends to have better compatibility.

I have both installed though and use them both lol.

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egrets@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
OnlyOffice is Russian-owned, via a holding company in Singapore. When Russia invaded Ukraine and sanctions threatened the business, they obfuscated this, but it’s still Lev Bannov’s product.

The importance you attach to this is up to you, but they try quite hard to hide it.

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fluckx@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Libreoffice their latest blogpost is from the 20th of August 2025. There have been a few releases in the past few months as well.

Openoffice their latest ( Apache Openoffice 4.1.15 ) was released almost 2 years ago ( December 2023 ).

Libreoffice seems like a more recent, better supported tool over Openoffice which hasn’t seen any updates since 2023 according to their own website.

I’m on my phone, so I didn’t search extensively. But I think that also plays a role in why there’s a much larger fanbase for libreoffice rather than Openoffice.

I’ve no recent experience with either so I can’t comment on how well either works.

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- mintiefresh@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I believe Open Office and Only Office are different products.
  
  Only Office had a major release in June, 2025.
  
  And you are correct that Open Office last update was back in December 2023.
  
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  - relativestranger@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    openoffice is an apache project, created when oracle gave them the code and rights to the openoffice project. ibm later donated symphony to them. anyone familiar with apache knows they do things their own way, and usually slowly.
    
    libreoffice originated from a fork when openoffice’s status under oracle was in doubt. it progresses faster than apache, as most developers also switched.
    
    onlyoffice is an entirely different application. decent enough, but with its own quirks. it can also be slow on lower-spec systems due to the heavy reliance on js. originally a latvian-russian project, it was reorganized (via new corporate entities in uk and sg) to hide the russian ties for ‘reasons’.
    
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    mintiefresh@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Ah I see. Thanks for the information. I use both LibreOffice and OnlyOffice and generally am happy with both. I kind of just bounce around back and forth.
    
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  - fluckx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    You are correct. I misread ( or my brain farted ) and looked up the wrong one.
    
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MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
LibreOffice has a ribbon UI too!

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- mintiefresh@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  That it does :)
  
  LibreOffice is awesome too. No complaints really.
  
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