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MS Office alternative Euro-Office gets Windows, macOS, and Linux desktop app
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k0morebi
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Stream of consciousness....
have tried self hosting nextcloud a few times but always found it buggy and very slow, so I'm curious how this is. UI looks clean. Ribbon isn't offensive like Microsoft's.
Hoping we get a true FOSS openoffice successor soon. I feel like it's been stagnated for a decade or more. I find myself using latex or just writing markdown lately and converting with pandoc with increasingly regularity.
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Euro-Office also leverages this OOXML format, which effectively makes it an ally of Microsoft, according to LibreOffice.
This is a misconstrued take on "competition".
The only way to really compete with an existing standard is through compatibility and replacement. This may well explain LibreOffice lack of marketplace traction.
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There's also WPS Office which has been around for ages, is free/cheap for most users, and while it does have the odd bug and glitch probably isn't much worse than the Microsoft equivalent. Runs on everything (Windows, Linux, OS X, Android), and isn't tied to the cloud unless you explicitly choose cloud sync or something.