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KDE is working on an M$ Word alternative? (flathub.org)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Just found this while scrolling flathub.

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 3 weeks ago (19 children)

As a KDE fan, I don't use any of these "redundant" programs, unless there is a true benefit.

The thing is that, LibreOffice works and looks great in Plasma, and Calligra doesn't do anything special.

It's even more obvious for me with KTorrent. We already have qBitTorrent!

I absolutely like things like Neochat, tho, because in this case the "official" alternative is an annoying Electron app.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Since you are able to classify it as "redundant", I would assume you have experience using it? Could you comment on some of the main gaps you find between this and LibreOffice, that leads you to prefer LibreOffice? As stated in a comment below, I have no experience with this and would be interested to see if it could be a contender, and it seems you have an opinion that it (at least at present), does not.

If you mean "redundant" as in "LibreOffice already does everything you need", I disagree with that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It doesn't handle .docx files.
And it has a useless sidebar you can't remove.
And it doesn't have the libreoffice ecosystem, with lots of extensions and plugins.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

@superkret @cyberwolfie world would be a better place if many many more office suites, especially MS Office, wouldn't support OOXML... The only reason for its existance is MS monopoly and lies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yes, unfortunately we live in the world we live in.

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