Online office suite alternatives

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• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Two options:

  • OnlyOffice - focus on compatibility with MS Office formats, but full disclosure, it has ties to a Russian org (R7? Product is marketed as R7-Office), but the primary developer seems to be Latvian (Ascensio System SIA)
  • Collabora CODE/LibreOffice Online - Collabora CODE is a community edition of a for-profit office suite based on LibreOffice (maintained by The Document Foundation) by a company in the UK

  Both have integration with NextCloud and probably other cloud suites (I think Seafile supports both?), and I think they can both be used standalone. OnlyOffice also has client versions that can be used separately or with a cloud version.

  Some technical differences:

  • rendering - OnlyOffice renders in the client, Collabora renders on the server and sends images back to the client; both support collaborative editing
  • format support - OnlyOffice focuses on MS Office formats, LibreOffice focuses on open formats, though both have support for multiple formats; you’ll likely get more rendering differences vs MS Office w/ Collabora, though both have their issues
  • features - OnlyOffice has limited features, Collabora has whatever features LibreOffice has (read: lots)

  I personally use Collabora, mostly since I use LibreOffice anyway, so I’d rather deal with some jankiness w/ the server-side rendering than deal w/ jankiness due to MS Office support. I use it through NextCloud, though I’m trying out Seafile and may swap to that instead.

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• sonalder@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  CryptPad or Collabora Office

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  • aksdb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    CryptPad is absolutely fantastic. Easy to host and secure design.

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• curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Apache guacamole plus your own libreoffice install maybe?

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  • roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That sounds like more of a mobile usage problem than Nextcloud.

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• catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I know of Onlyoffice, but I haven’t used it personally: github.com/ONLYOFFICE/DocumentServer

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• Fromchamp@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Maybe Only Office : www.onlyoffice.com/en/docspace.aspx

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  • ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Have you tried this vs libreoffice?

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    • acockworkorange@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Does LibreOffice have an online version?

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• anamethatisnt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I haven’t tried it myself but there is libreoffice online
  www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-online/
  hub.docker.com/r/libreoffice/online/

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  • merde@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “LibreOffice was based on OpenOffice.org.”

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  • anamethatisnt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Nevermind, it’s been abandoned by the company that contributed the most to it.
    lwn.net/Articles/882460/

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