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The full guide to switching from big US tech to supporting more ethical and EU-based companies! (Redone with OSs added) (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I prefer Only Office (Desktop Version) to Libre Office, because

it does not look like over 20 year old Office 2003
it uses docx and xlsx as native format which makes it easier for noobs

I heared Only Office has some Russian connections. Otherwise it still is Open Source.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Onlyoffice uses Electron, which uses an outdated and seldomly updated version of Chromium 😵

It would be good if they could support QtWebengine or WebkitGTK, or if the Linux Desktops could start to support a single webview-like runtime

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Oh, I see. And Electron is not really making things faster.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Yeah mainly it ships often outdated versions of chromium, and duplicates of it (if you have Element, Onlyoffice and Signal Desktop, you have 3 versions of Chromium). So big bandwidth, RAM and storage waste.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

@Wrdlbrmpfd @FallenWalnut Why don’t you try Free Office? It has a free tier and it’s German.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Seems ok, but it seems to be a dowgraded version from a commercial product. If there is a good Open Soruce product, I prefer that.