I know the Linux community loves LibreOffice but OnlyOffice is just waaaay more user friendly overall, and the ability to have all the office suites in one window is wonderful. It's become standard for me to replace LibreOffice with this as soon as I install a distro.
this post was submitted on 20 Oct 2023
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It doesn't support RTL languages.
Agreed, looks much more polished (and fast). It's a shame, tho, as I want LO to succeed. But it may be so cumbersome at times...
Fully agree. I started using OnlyOffice about 6 months ago but wouldn't go back to LibreOffice at this point. I feel the interface is way more intuitive and helps with productivity.
I'm a fan of the LibreOffice project too, but they need to invest some time in improving the interface. The Word 97 look isn't cutting it for me anymore and even with "ribbon mode" enabled it's vastly inferior to OnlyOffice's UI.
I love the design, but I find it incredibly laggy on my Fedora laptop. There's a noticeable lag between each keystroke and the letter appearing.
How is it on resources? I have a i386 project computer running Debian 12 and I'm looking to make it as "modern" as possible. Right now, my fight is with slow browsers and LibreOffice (I'm trying to avoid the Abiword, etc route).
It's running on electron so... Yeah. Not the lightest program.
It's web tech but I don't think it's electron though maybe I'm wrong.
It either runs in the browser or an electron app, so unlikely that OnlyOffice will be a good fit.
You could try Collabora/Nextcloud Office, which runs the LibreOffice on the server and just streams UI tiles to the clients, so the impact of running that in shifted to the server. Still needs to run a browser though.
if it's an old (like c2d or older) pc with hdd and limited ram, probably better to use openoffice or libreoffice and deal with the slow launch times. onlyoffice is essentially a javascript app in exe form and is a bit slow on older hardware.
Ok. I've put in a SSD, I'm looking to add RAM (I may be already maxed out), and run zswap, etc. I guess I'll be sticking with LibreOffice.
I use the laptop for ham radio stuff, mostly, and things like an office suite are secondary.
My only complaint with OnlyOffice is that it's so insanely slow. Navigating the UI feels like it's running at 20fps or something. And loading up large excel sheets with thousands of rows often straight up crashes the program, or at least causes it to lag a huge amount when scrolling.
It's like this on my 2 PCs and my work PC too, even my gaming desktop which is more than capable of running a basic program like spreadsheets.
Libreoffice on the other hand is really fast, it's a breeze to work in. I also find the toolbar system in Libreoffice to be much easier to use when finding stuff like formulas or formatting functions.
manjaro introduced me to onlyoffice awhile back. i've since switched everything over to it except for one system that still has an old promo nfr office pro on it (for the rare times i specifically need it). i just have to remember to reconfigure new installs for Unstandard States of America (inches default, us letter default, default tabs to 0.5in)-only takes a minute or so.
I have too many issues with Onlyoffice. One is that it has not that many features compared to Libreoffice or Word.
Second issue, it has way too many bugs compared to the other two.
I was excited and decided to try it out but it's very basic pdf editing like highlighting, filling in forms. You can't edit already existing information in the pdf like you can with pdf gear for example
I love OnlyOffice, I just wish they'd fix the UI scaling on hi res screens. It looks weird on my 4k screen.
The UI is horrendously large on my 14 inch 1080p display too
doesn't "settings" -> "interface scaling" work for you?
Oh damn. It was at auto, which I assumed was 100% (the lowest value)
I set it to 100 manually and it looks a lot better, thanks!
And there is no setting the fix that. I've looked everywhere, but only found the one that enlarges the document, not the UI
Nice. Still stuck using libreoffice until they support Wayland unfortunately.
Isn't onlyoffice "open core" rather than open source?
The entire app is open-source with an AGPL license (which is really nice). They do have pricing options for enterprise support, web editors, etc. which aren't important. They may include some closed source code for these features but I'm not 100% sure.
AFAIK it is all open-source these days (unlike before), but some features are disabled in the official easy to use binary releases. Not ideal, but you can find 3rd party container images with the stuff enabled again.
That probably applies to their SaaS/hostable offering, which is separate from the standalone editors offered on linux AFAIK